we've talked about the last few years is the commencement of a pretty large turnover in the fire department ranks so we have five new firefighters that started during the month of january one started on january third the rest started on january twenty could stand up his full name is nicholas navarrette he probably only got called nicholas when he was in trouble nick actually comes from the sudbury fire department so he comes fully trained in this actually is first for the sure bon fire department so he and the remaining three will be doing in house training for the next few weeks and then they head off to the academy and they graduate the first week in june welcome greg is brittany taylor brittany taylor was actually a call firefighter in the tops field fire department so brittany is our third female firefighter and we welcome brittany she's reducing the age of the department quite a bit so that's a are medics so all trained without the cost and the cost of the town so it's helping keep our medic program going and expanding a little bit to help the citizens so i welcome you all to the town of belmont and so you've met mr cale who's the town administrator sammy baghdadi one of the selectmen the vice chair mark below who is the chairman and jim william who's the other member of the board and phyllis so what year is this this is this this will be the sixteenth year that when her and her friends home run by a cave race and walk and certainly want to say thank you to the time we consider it a partnership as we  engage in this every year one hundred percent volunteer activity and we're very proud of what with able to give back to the community and not even looking at the the capital support that we've done for multiple projects what we've done thirty seven scholarships for graduating high school seniors so again you know it's a great it's a great activity and i do want to just add it's it's actually turned into a very impressive  new england region athletic event where we have some of the top runners and new england actually coming here to belmont every year and sometimes from around the globe this year's winner here from new zealand  every year we start the walkers at nine thirty a m which are the runners started ten a m sharp it's a five k race it's quick which is why the again these great writers are showing up it's a great course that is about and it and it's you know it's a very traffic friendly minimal impact that certainly want to say thank you also to everyone who contributes on the town side terms of police fire recreation department school department  all yes we do we have we have a sixty and sixty plus at work and that's fine and but i'll have you know there's a gentleman that comes down from burlington almost every year his name is richard his name is to a review of the health insurance with jessica porter him so i was asked to essentially come in to provide a brief overview of a sensually the eligibility factors for health insurance through the town so for active employees permanent who work more  twenty hours per week we do offer a choice of two plans one is a harvard pilgrim h m o plan and the other is a harvard pilgrim p p o plan the plans are essentially identical with the exception of physician employees contribute either twenty or twenty five percent based upon their hired a p p o plan is a fifty fifty split so not only is that plan more expensive but there's also a smaller contribution from the town as you see before you those are the full cost rates the are if anybody has any questions at this point in terms of what the breakdowns are i can give you those figures or you could obviously terms of the percentage that's paid by the town and the percentage paid by the employer the numbers on the slide cost amounts for those plans  in so then we have plans for if you're not on medicare retirees so essentially a non medicare retirees is a retired employee who is either under the age of sixty five or who is not otherwise eligible for medicare their plan choices are the same as when they're actively employed and the percentage contributions are the same as when actively employed so for a tirade to be on the h m o the primary residence where they live must be within the plan service area which is  y massachusetts some parts of new hampshire and i believe even a portion of southern maine otherwise if their primary residence is outside of the service area then they must take the p p o plan harvard will not let them enroll in the h m o plan if their primary residence is outside the network so for example if you have a retiree that is relocated to florida permanently they would have to take the p p o plan and again this is just for those retirees that are fifty five to sixty five or who are otherwise not eligible for medicare which that percentage is very small most people will qualify for it through medicare whether it's on their own through a spouse or even through an expos and if they say that they're not eligible for medicare they must provide us proof of documentation from medicare stating that they're not eligible so we do actually check we don't just was word for if you don't have your quarters and your cross swords medicare then you don't qualify so for example some teachers might not qualify if they started teaching at age twenty two and never worked in the private sector or might have worked in the private sector but not have their quarters in but again a lot of those instances they can qualify through a spouse even if they don't qualify on their own since very few people fall into that scenario so for purposes of health insurance or eligibility is a retiree tyree is considered essentially to be any employee who's actually collecting a pension check so you might have somebody that says they retire but until they actually file under chapter thirty two and get a pension check they're not considered or tired for purposes of getting health insurance then for our medicare retirees which are essentially retired employees sixty five or older they are required to sign up for medicare part b once they reach sixty five and at that point we offer a choice of two medicare supplement plans that they have the option to take they are not required to take one of these but essentially medicare will cover eighty percent of their costs of the supplement plan essentially covers the other twenty percent including prescriptions so the two plans we offer are explained here the harvard pilgrim medicare inhance in terms of eligibility if you're retired desiring health insurance coverage through the town you must elect coverage at the time of your retirement the less you have coverage elsewhere some people are covered under a spouse we do not offer an annual open enrollment for retirees some communities do that we have made the decision here to not do an open enrollment for retirees so essentially the only way a retiree could ever come onto our plan if they don't take it at the time of retirement is if they experience a loss of coverage so if they're covered for event and yes it is a benefit offered to retiree's but they would have to take it at the time of retirement or if they had coverage elsewhere then they won't take it but then if they lost their coverage they'd be able to come on here most of our employers are taking it at the time of retirement because it also secures coverage for their spouses or yes it's a last general law that if you retire under the provisions of chapter thirty to be that you get the health insurance as a retir window otherwise they would lose the opportunity and because we don't offer the annual open enrollment they would lose the opportunity forever or yes right they were right o age fifty five with a minimum of ten years of service and again that service within the system so necessarily doesn't have to be ten years in belmont you could work nine years in another community come here and well one year and you qualify  right yes ok so the next slide sort of explains why most people take it so surviving spouses so upon a retiree's death their surviving spouse may remain on the town's health insurance coverage for as long as they need it the less they remarry if the surviving spouse remarries then under the provisions of chapter thirty two they are no longer eligible for coverage now here's the catch so surviving spouse can only be on the town's health insurance plan if they were on the plan at the time of the retiree's passing so again a lot of times most the time you're going to see retirees taking health insurance at the time of retirement to protect that benefit of the surviving spouse so for example if you say i'm not going to take the town's plan because i'm on my spouse then they retire you passes away the spouse doesn't have that opportunity to come on to the town's plan at that time that's why you will see most retirees taking the plan at the time of retirement to protect that benefit meaning for retirees yeah i mean typically the medicare plans are single plans so if you have a retiree and a spouse that are on the medicare plans that is actually two individual plans there isn't a fan i plan for medicare it's actually two individual plans and then conversely if you have you know the retiree turned sixty five goes on a medicare supplement plan if the surviving spouse is under age sixty five and they would simply go on the individual h m o or p p o until the surviving spouse achieves age sixty five the law where you could build back other communities that provision apparently wasn't really working out as mine are sending it's pretty much gone away some communities were paying some weren't as well we really need to be careful when we you know i mean again it's one big public pension system as mr kale you know illustrated and you know basically as long as you have that cumulative ten years of credible service from could be for multiple years could just be from the one community you're going to be eligible under chapter thirty two you fill out the forms they marry up the funds collectively gather the years of service and that essentially goes with you ok as long as you don't cash out which most people are not going to cash out when they leave the community because when you're starting out you know lifetime of issues i've run into where people have missed that thirty day window and you know because it's around the death of their own right it could be the death of the spouse or could be the spouse losing their job or maybe the spouse retires and the spouses company doesn't offer retiree coverage i mean there's a lot of different things divorce there's a lot of things that cost you a qualifying event but are it is very specifically defined like somebody can't come and say i've been on my spouse's plan and the premiums just quadrupled i want to go on the town's plan  might well it says it's not for distribution but if it's in a public meeting does that mean that it can be not distributed or well i think we're submitting our budget to next monday so this was a draft this is clearly s hiring a consultant to validate the assessed value so that they can be confident in the assessed value when they implement that so that if it gets challenged by and start they will have the ability basically is the bill where you basically reconcile you know so they are so i think the point is you wait we don't lose the ability to tax that personal property we're just looking at what the assessed value could be in order to then you're going to assess you the board of assessors during this process will be able to define a value which will give you an estimated property tax amount that will be included in the eighteen that we get and the significance is once you hit february the time to file a tax abatement  it's eighteen revenue so the fact the matter is well what then it's nine hundred thousand new growth which is a nice increase and will have additional new growth determination on the substation product assets is in balance between revenues and expenditures we started the process as you recall using two point two million dollars in the general stabilization fund in order to balance the budget and we indicated that it was our goal through a combination of reducing our expenditure estimates and had hopefully having increased revenues that we would basically be able to reduce the amount used in the general stabilization to a lesser amount we started to point to where one million three thirty one which is a significant decrease we anticipate that with the additional growth from the assessor's as part of the budget process that that will allow the town to reduce the amount used in fiscal eighteen from general stabilization even further  we believe there may be some adjustments on the school budget that will allow that to be even reduced even further so as we set our goal would be to whatever we used in fiscal eighteen to at the very least have an amount equal to nineteen because if you use less revenue from that source the general stabilization it means a reduction expenditures so the goal is to try to use as little as possible from the general stabilization so that we can stretch it out as long as we can two years or three years if not longer so again i think the the fortunate thing is is that our state aid number is significantly higher than we anticipated we were projecting about ninety three thousand that came in at five seventy six which is important because revenues five hundred seventy six thousand beyond what we had but initially budgeted it's five hundred seventy six that is the total increase we are already had assumed ninety three thousand ninety nine point three million and if you do not know we assumed a one percent increase in our state a and three thousand and ninety three thousand so basically the net impact to our budget from our projection was about four hundred seventy six thousand terms of where they compared to remember we started the process with the projected revenues and projected expenditures now that we've gone through the budget process we basically have harder numbers in terms of actual revenues and actual expenditures so in the original forecast we assumed a ninety three thousand dollar budget right so that allows us to increase our revenue side which is good because that will allow us to better manage fiscal nineteen and twenty twenty cents so we don't know and sense from the legislature will do with this right we don't i think your comment the other day was probably the best which is typically the legislature doesn't reduce state aid to cities and towns unless there's a catastrophic event so it may marginally increase paul what priorities the legislature has and what it wants yet change in the governor's budget right i would say that the other thing to highlight is so we have made an effort to reduce our two point zero so the carry was million seven carryover is one point seven million and our goal is to reduce the million three even further the seven which will happen through a revised new growth number and also mean it doesn't get again i would just say this i think when and yeah understand i think the plan would be would be that if the new growth went when it went revised by the sesar that would simply increase our property tax allegation reduce our general so it's actually an is well beyond you know maybe looking at other needs within our budget the plan is at this point dollar for dollar any additional increase  or that's this is further down the road state aid number might probably remain the same probably will come back they go up pension legislation does this point any additional increase in revenues least for now will result in a dollar for dollar reduction in the amount of general stabilization funds we draw down in the sense so if you wanted to stretch it out three years and you were able to do a million a million a million you based on the ark is not budgeted in the water and sewer budget for the water is imports and it's based on a calculation a policy that we determine through the funding open i think what he's trying to say is is that if in fact just like a light department if you wanted to charge what the enterprise funds calculated annual required contribution would be to deal with the opec bly ability that would be a budgeted number that is not that this policy with regard to the calculation you know i happen to agree with them should be increased to five hundred thousand i completely disagree with something i disagree completely so it's an estimate our estimate went down in two years went from one ninety four to one seven three times under funded amount so i think there's a lot that we can do to control our health care costs prospectively be helpful i really looking forward to the our p and also what he op ed study group provides us and i see no real reason for this idea of free cash flow because that's how you get in trouble kicked up with these underfunded benefits is by not funding them and then you end up with a liability which you're going to end up paying more ok with dollars the second thing i want to ask  see on monday which members of the work they want us to fund are in or require a contribution or change of policy i'm really curious to see which members i work many members coming here on monday it suggest that somehow we should be changing a policy in funding an estimate that clearly can be contained by you know some of the policy we employ from in health insurance respect it's ok to talk about i'm a little i'm just curious to see which members of the work may feel strongly about changing our policy if i hope that i think the import putting more money into an account that's going to be wasted so to answer the special education stabilization fund the town does have a special education stable sation fund which virtually has zero into it now there's no money down however it is true there's no money in it we seed it it would a quarter million dollars w down yeah right we spent all that and so i did two years ago so i think this superintendent has had conversations with the school committee about the circuit breaker revolving fund which is what i think you're talking about probably so the superintendent in trying to work with the town of ministration to try to extend override dollars is long as possible receives state reimbursement for special education tuitions and that's put that's put into by statute into a circuit breaker revolving account and that becomes part of the funding plan for special education to wishes it's a reimbursement from the state for special education tuitions cost the superintendent is working on a plan which would use this circuit breaker in terms of available balances over the next three years  provide an essence a safety valve such as you would use a special education stabilization fund to allow the school department to manage its special education costs i will point out that in eighteen budget we had predicted a seven percent increase in special education to issue and cost the superintendent and town of ministration his work to get that down to only a three point five percent increase for fiscal eighteen which is a savings of one hundred sixty eight thousand dollars the superintendent is reviewing current in romance and special education outside tuitions and he may be recommending a spend every year and and you know it increases and depends on out of district costs if we have one student or to say to individual to come to a community require significant amount of i did out of district need to wish it could be six figures in cos it is for the nature of it we have a legal and ethical obligation to fund those the idea behind specially stabilization fund was to try to smooth out those you know increases and at one point we talked about perhaps two you know thank you for that were you know i don't i don't think anyone's you know no one's talking about reducing special ed it is what it is no not really but it but the question is how much would be in the stabilization fund or  program there's a what the superintendent is trying to there is actually getting reimbursed if it's getting reimbursed you know how much is going to be parked in that so what the superintendent is trying to do is do two things at the same time he's trying to use the special education circuit breaker account which is a revolving count to basically do two things provide in essence the benefit of a special education stabilization fund over the next couple years so that if the town is hit with a gene that is a step down the town is hit like we were last year hit with an unexpected large case that he has the ability to fund it in that year because again it's not just for one year it's an ongoing placement that needs to be funded in the out years and then at the same time he's basically drawing down a path upon that so that basically in the out years the ability to not have a se percent increase in the general fund line item for special education outside tuitions cost may be lesser than the seven percent expected so he's trying to do two things at the same way he's done an initial attempt to do that which is to provide a safety valve but also to to use the funds so that he can spread it out over the next three years so i know that he will be reviewing that but that is basically his forward thinking plan because again that is one of our vulnerabilities so he's trying to do what you all just have said do i have the ability have a safety valve with some additional resources in case we get hit with unexpected costs and can i also use this circuit breaker to basically smooth out funding over the next of the the conversation that's going to come up on monday is how much money is is going to be in there and whether it's going to be nine fifty or two fifty or what the numbers you know what i was trying to figure out in this document you know can you can you say from memory you know what's in here there is nothing in this budget because this is the general fund budget that is being news from the circuit breaker the circuit breaker is a revolving so special education costs from bet it is in the school right mind and as i said the initial allocation or estimate for special ed tuitions in the school side was projected to be seven percent it's been reduced to three half percent reversion to the percentage increase the special education tuitions in the general fund budget which would then basically if it wasn't spent would allow the general stabilization allocation to be reduced even further so the question on monday is going to be you know how that works out we'll get it from john but the concern is whether the stabilization funds are in the school department funds or whether it's in the general fund a circuit breaker funds or not in the general fund no i understand that but the amount of money you know if in other words if there's a problem you know they can come to the town and say ok you know we had a two hundred thousand dollar increase it's a fine you know in the general stabilization fund we have that money so we're drawdown from general stabilization and you do it that way rather than parking the money in the school budget actually under the minute municipal modernization bill there's an opportunity which is a modified special education stabilization fund is to basically appropriate that to a reserve fund which would put the money and but basically it could be used without further appropriation i think the point for me at cynic completely agree yes if we could not be great and whether we do it in drawing from the general staff on whether the superintendent uses his revolving fund to smooth out his special ed cost whether we take the revolving fund of the superintendent currently has and seed the special ed stabilization fund it's all dollars i think the hope point is i think our goal needs to be to try to maintain we have to have a balanced budget to try to maintain a state budget between now in fiscal twenty with our funding sources because i don't think it i don't support any kind of an because any thought about an operating override before we have to go to the general electorate on that exclude from the high school you know i think all of that's got to be you know the capital budget plan right you know for these other i mean that has to be considered alongside the high school and we have to you know we have to decide what to do you know it has to be decided on the other thing i'm worried about i'm not so much worried about the  this idea of full cost versus you know accruals on the balance sheet because by my training and your training you know if you are incurring expenses in that you are given period you know you either need to what you know the matching principle in accounting and the one weakness that i i'm scene now you know we did extend the payment schedule for the pensions but there's this question about whether they're going to be able to earn seventy five percent or not and we did keep the the payment schedule on the twenty twenty seven schedule you remember that you know so it's it's a ninety three it goes and i five in the other number but in our discussions with the retirement board you know jim mentioned that he would be more comfortable with the six percent number than the seven percent number and have we gotten that actually where report yet that they issue that report i believe they have i just want to update you that  the the uptick in the market here and help the return that's an issue but i was wondering if if we might consider going forward not for this budget but go going forward as a policy matter when we get to discussing policy for unfunded benefit obligations the idea that we should have some sort of pensions ta that would enable us to address you know a shortfall in return and the reason for that is that if you look at the balance sheet our our pension obligation went from sixty three million to  seventy seven and it did that you know from the last from the two thousand and fourteen two thousand and sixteen and it did that for reasons that we know we've we lowered the you know we lowered the assumed rate from seven seventy five to percent more and then we never pay this thing in right now it's soaking up about ten million of our eighty three million real estate business pension you know so it's about twelve percent of our real estate taxes that are what else so i think the only other have been the only other parts are the only other policy decision that the board will need to consider as it moves through the budget season is in superintend speak about the us base committee in the module classrooms as i noted on thursday if we will need modular classrooms to deal with elementary and roman and when they will need to be on site ready to go in september of eighteen for the eight hundred nine hundred school year superintendents working through a process of identifying the number of modules modular classrooms and the location of the other elementary schools because of their proximity of where modular classrooms may need to be sited they will be additional utility costs a new dish will site work which will make the those costs more expensive superintendent as we talked about is working to the process what the tower will need to decide formally is where they will go and the number but in order for them to be on site in the fall of eighteen we need to pay for them  appropriate the funds in order so that they can use or not but i mean for instance by one january of eighteen so what the board will need to decide is a couple things once that cost in location and numbers determine i would suggest that we're not going to be in a position for this annual town meeting to do that because it will require significant conversations and planning that maybe in the fall of two thousand and seventeen once free cash is certified then the board can have an opportunity with the town treasurer and the town administrator to basically come up with the financing plan and that may include funding it from proceeds from the cushing square parking lot sale to pay upon the number in the cost or maybe bonding them which may be a five year bond issue to purchase them again the cost depend upon the number of modular classrooms could be over a five year period of three hundred fifty to five hundred thousand dollars cost for principal and interest so what does it get funded from free cash if you let the sale proceeds fall the free cash in fiscal seventeen or do you just bond it and fund a portion of it from free cash that is well i don't i don't know whether we can make any kind of the solution on monitor classrooms until the high school building impact the number of modules yeah you may have two or three so i mean or can i just i think you know the exact number that they're kicking around two million dollars now i know that but in the i don't think we can make any kind of the solution in this this currently in going up every year which it is don't you think we should have some rule of thumb about how we recognize that from the actually rather than you know squeezing the budget all the time to see what i mean in other words if there's four thousand students and you end up with i don't know if the increase would be four hundred but let's just say this that's a ten percent increase we get we can't really expect you know to carry that kind of addition that's for every year you know i mean we have to begin to redirect income and funds to accommodate that they just can't keep squeezing and squeezing i mean what is the you know what the roman increases per year do hundred students approximately for the last five years yeah i don't think we've squeezed them i think there's only so much money to go around so where do we take from what town services what town services that we reduce i  completely support the schools it's a it's a phenomenon that's occurring that's really putting an enormous strain or a budget book operating and kapil right so not only is it is it and it's wonderful that young families are moving to this community and kids are coming eighteen budget includes five additional teaching positions as as laid out as part of the override campaign and includes an additional bus and it maintains the funding for materials and supplies so i think the but whatever teams in place here really do a comprehensive projection for the future while we will use our money into consideration the thoughts of the cap on some major building projects and i together so what we will be doing is now that we have a budget plan for eighteen that will allow us to update our projections from nineteen twenty twenty one at the beginning the process based on the information we had we had a shortfall for nineteen so it's not a question of adding we had to deal with the short of the projections for the future day would also include doesn't include steady state it must include increases in rome and correct it we've added a line to basically include some additional cost roman based in the model again whether you have the revenues to support those estimated expenditure increases is another discussion because you can doubt anything you want to the roman line about additional teachers or additional materials but if you don't have the revenues to pay for them and you're in a deficit situation it really doesn't make never jointer what you haven't thought of that's the that's the whole point of this discussion we need to have some you know projections for the future and roman concerns of that hasn't strange put science school resources plus classroom size well and then frankly the other issue to consider which is goes back to the modular is if the superintendent is using every available space to do teaching and learning that he may not have space to add any more teachers unless he has a history and it looks are all things that need to take a day with really further on this don't talk to other people well the good news is that we're getting new growth so that's helpful time off so we emailed you today hey bill emailed you today that we've been notified by toll brothers environmental consultant sage environmental that they've agreed to extend the public comment per period for their draft remediation plan for the cushion village site by an additional twenty days so that the gauged a gentleman by the name of john you know madison hughes at the month at the presentation by toll brothers in sage consulting yes last tuesday and you met him and so he is receiving information and that he will take that into account in order to provide recommendations as part of the p filing twenty one the site the former tops cleaner site we will provide comments to that plan during this now forty five day comment period corrective i think there's also an agreement that the residents the about hers or whomever can provide comments who are licensed site professional in terms of and they have to provide comments the ram plan they are required to release abatement measures i think the neighborhood in the community was pleased that the board's looked into it got it from that now will he provide comments of course before the expiration of the review period so ok it's eight hundred pages i actually printed it off i haven't read it but it's incredible and talks all about all of these measures that's going to be taken by sage consulting and i and i think that we as a board felt it was important to have an independent party look at what david two things we did have a conversation with senator brown's berger and basically he did his review with the senate council in basically you have received two versions from george hall with regard to the transfer ability language that you would asked how the meeting through approved one is much more restrictive the other ones or less restrictive basically either version would be  accepted by the senate counsel so you need to decide which one you need to move forward i was advised that the committee chairs have still not been appointed they have not it gets you closer to the end of february they still have to get themselves organized they have to figure out where they want to go into a committee would hear this it's i believe and i'm doing this from memory it's i think a regular municipal services but i could be corrected on that we did speak before the whatever whatever homework edition we it will get referred to that joint committee meeting and dob it we get for it to this legislative committee and then the decide when he's done it and then sort of review it and the chair would decide when it got taken up when when did use it when when did we get the georgia troll did that come by e mail that was provided to you several weeks ago but you know it's all we we're still waiting for feedback from representative roger no he basically said either version would be fine also that came from george or from you what the diversion i think it was wait for the maid tell me in which you get a special within that which is may first there's no guarantee that if it's a minute to the legislature to get it it's not first in first out so it's up to the chair when he wants to schedule a hearing to hear it when he gets moving so there's yes i mean we we assume that bring your own beer or wine is going to have better yes kitchen the former kitchen on common bring a bottle of wine when we think you could be you know bring you a beer or of the licensing authority i think is what i mean we're all in a fight you would notify the establishment that don't have restaurant liquor license who but who have a common vic license these are the rules that you need to about if they don't abide they lose their common victual or license so they can't serve so we have liquor license rules and regulations that have been adopted and i think it would be an amendment to those you're saying david we've we've gone through them we've made amendments based upon  suggestions from the police chief and one clancy we're also working on outdoor seating rules and regs you know updating those so those will be forwarded to you shortly and i've seen them in the rules and regs in other communities still you know that makes sense of the last thing is next week we will now that the working group that the chair has talked about on capital this we should formalize the group probably with who is currently there the work committee wants to be we have talked about that more committee was sort of doing their own thing and not doing their own thing but they were looking at this matter as well we talked to chair epstein said  the laser reports i've mentioned this before but i'm going before the traffic advisory commission on wednesday concerning the intersection and plants for the i think that's great and i think that's great and thank you there are two ideas i'm i'm not you know i'm not saying that you know that this is the solution because i think the traffic commission and in the police chief and the fire chief should you know they should all way and  ordinary course of business but it does seem like the one one thing that we should do is make it a smart intersection which we can they can coordinate with the m b t and that will give the conductor or the engineer  twenty second warning if there's a car on the track and then the second thing which i think makes sense which we can do locally and that is to put traffic signals there and what would happen is it would prevent cars from going into a community can now decide is it twenty miles or twenty five miles per hour so while we asked them about because i had heard that they were looking at this issue that before you had one before we had to do was you had t o which didn't make sense because in order to change post the speed limit on a particular street you had to do a monitor the speed limit on that street for a period of time was twenty if i think you can i think the general wisdom has been for town to be higher than twenty five or has to be twenty five the conventional wisdom has been you adopt the twenty five mile per hour statute the entire t for public roads and you don't exclude different streets because then it becomes more than four you can't do the pictures at the chief has a recommendation i think phyllis of the chief are working on this i think that maybe on the draft list of one articles for the board of select on the transition plan i met with david in just a kid today is going to be an agenda topic for monday evening the thirteenth and so we talked about the need to do an r f p or a few for a hire a professional firm to but i think you know we may or may not want to hire the concept of they're absolutely an organization that does this work for others as well jessica pointed out to two or three others we talked about the need to form a search committee that we did before and we could talk a little bit more about what that would mean on monday one of the things jessica mentioned was we may want to wait for the higher this search firm and they may have some ideas that could differ than ours or add to what who would be of members of the search me committee but typically the search committee just changing tone and you know hiring time to ministry or we are very you should look at per we have that information what we did at the time is we change the drug description to a chief administrative officer it was sort of in line with the government structure laser reports the only thing i'd say is that the belmont high school building committee did issue a request for owners project manager services and we did get twelve submissions was it fellas so we did get twelve submissions which is you know encouraging it's a big enough project certainly really and there is subcommittee of the belmont high school building committee it's called the owners project manager selection subcommittee and they are meeting this wednesday morning to review and rank the paper well