people i mean i can address that just briefly i do hear from you i think that you know plastic bags have many harmful consequences for the environment that's why sixty one towns across the commonwealth have been banning them and more working on that including belmont we hope and i think the issue when you tell people that they can't give out a plastic bag is that some people get a paper bag are where mandating forty percent recycled content so that's a good thing some people will be able to just carry their product away without a bag and we're the goal of our committee is to help people use more reusable bags so a bag for life the nutshell version about the controversy about paper bags is that they're not necessarily a super green alternative even if a port for even if a bag has forty percent recycled content there's some greenhouse gas emissions involved in production and transport of those bags the very best thing to do is to have a reusable bag or to just take your your too big to paste and hold it in your hand while you walk to the car so there's a large educational component for citizens that our group is going to be taking on we have a variety of public forum planned we have an effort to get reusable bags into the hands of people that might need them and so there's a lot of public outreach that needs to go along with the plastic bag ban but that's the essential issue that has some environmentalists in belmont concerned about tons and tons of paper bags does that seem to make sense and appreciate your son's thing with the counter is it is the is the merchants that will be concerned what's want to know article in the senate i think it doesn't say we're favorable unfavorable i'd like to put it on that way we can control it and climate i just wanted to understand where the residents would say you know how you take away my plastic bags is easier for me to carry but it sounds like more of a merchant side this i do it's we continue to put stress on our town departments to enforce health community development and so i've expressed his concern to patrice that we continue to ask him to do more we have more byelaws and really there isn't probably a good reason why the  resources what does that mean we can another by law has to be enforced and we don't enforce it because we don't have the resources so can i can i just say something on that so tonight this is a behavioral change right where the merchants will say it's banter they don't have it so there's a much more important easy marker the precinct one we did we surveyed what other towns have done they turns out most of them use board of health we contacted the board of health in january and tonight actually were on their agenda to discuss this so it's very time i get that but this is what we do as a community we ask we have more bylaws which i support you know sidewalk by law you know all the via was to order and enforcement responsibilities to or departments but we don't include crease their resources through all the bylaws on the books that go on in force if you will and this is going to be one more and so i just want us to be aware that that not i don't support this i do that this has one more dish no responsibility to the part you know wes is the department responsibility beyond everything else that they're doing with the same resources well and also everything else that's being added to them like the marijuana all of that stuff so i think that we as a community need to understand here's another by a large we're going to put on the books and we're asking  our department of health to enforce it and they're already stretched completely thin and probably not getting everything that we need to get them but i second the motion ok on favre i'm going to say that i'm to put the motion on we did i want to tell you i appreciate doing this because i think if you hadn't done it this would have been a harder discussion because then we'd have to spend you know should the board really do it or not but because it was on you know it was already going to be on the warrant that made that decision easier for us and i think adam's of a point that you know there are picks and packs in this regulation that we actually have to consider from a town standpoint so we're probably better you know to handle this article than than you would be put i think you guys are right about this i also can't imagine you know i understand your point marc but i can't imagine that if we banned plastic bags that there's preach thank you very much in play what my family does as we go to star market from time to time we also whole foods but star market i always take plastic bags sorry but then i always collect them and i take them back and i stuff them in the bin i don't know what happens to them after that but i do understand that there's value to it and i understand from one resident that we have a part of a park bench and one of the part that was given to us by the people i called the bags and was made out of the bag so for some reason you know there's value to the banks but i think this solution is better for the greater good very good thank you very very much q so i would ask at this point do you want to continue on with this or do you want to adjourn this to the light this congratulate congratulations on your award for being the veteran services officer of the year what was it was in that last year you received something you know you don't want to thank my god truck and well if we could give you the motion a move that we were the contract for burbank modular building utility connection and site improvement work to w l french excavating corp for the amount of eight hundred forty one thousand dollars second of  you mr chairman we are currently seeking a facilities director as the board knows this position is bacon along with another important position in the facilities department have proposed taking this as an opportunity to restructure the department to better serve the taps is the previous new organizational chart of the facilities department council has suggested an article to be placed on the you know tom meaning warrant that allows a town to collect three percent of marijuana marijuana tax whether or not the town bo stopped out or extend the moratorium i have a list of articles in the back of my report the idea of extending the moratorium has come up in discussion to allow time meaning to have a safety net if sewing opt out recreational marijuana article is not approved the extension could be put in place until december two thousand and eighteen because the marijuana planning board is holding two public hearings on tuesday march sixth at seven pm the hearings will be on extending the current moratorium as well as zoning as the zoning by law for recreation you will be rejected by the attorney general so he sort of works for him you know on the december thirty first two thousand eight hundred likely going to be rejected the existing one expires on june thirtieth yes here's my point is that i think that there's so much that we need i'm not looking to the we have there are two that have articles in by march fifth yeah we can put into place what i thought we were taught we talked earlier about doing a special time meaning within time meeting to deal with the marijuana issues because of the ongoing discussion right we're talking about it so we don't have to meet march fifth this still put these on the three percent i would definitely put on i think as you said because whether we opt in or opt out we opt out then it's just doesn't matter if we opt in we definitely want to make sure we get the taxes for it if we don't do the extension in the same way that we do the three percent then there's going to be assistance more for the there's still a lot of moving parts as a relates to the cannabis control commission right away for final regulations on the fifteenth of march i think we need to give ourselves some time to get community input on you know where this is going to be zone where think that with other things that are out there i think we're likely going to have a fault on meeting george said it makes abundant sense as the play more works through all of this adam i think we need to be very deliberate you've heard my point of view on opting out of not in favor of that on retail establishment custody but i certainly think that the board can say look we need more time the playing board needs more time to get community input in terms of where this is owned and the regulations that whatever they put into place let's extend for six months to the end of the county here i think those citizens that have put in order to win the war to to extend december thirty first two thousand one thousand that's going to be rejected george told me that would be rejected by the attorney but if they opt out if this is potentially the opt out is certified and take that up the traffic about i think many met and discussed their efforts to study belmont's traffic volume throughout the town the community development office hired the engineering firm p s c to conduct the study there was an internal informational gathering session on february twenty just do that than stay in session as we are and so make a motion to go into a movie go into executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with union personnel or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with union personnel board today with a agreement between the town and the service employees international union or s c i use it's more commonly referred to this bargaining unit represents forty three total members and it is predominantly clerical staff as well as some supervisory positions as well this three year agreement would run from july first two thousand and seventeen through june thirtieth two thousand and twenty and it report represents an overall six point three two percent increase the key financial components are the cost of living increases which allows for two percent each fiscal year of the contract a new step for those individuals with fifteen years of service with the town which will be at half a percent higher than the current top stuff rate knew that i sat down with i want to say it was a year ago october that we started meeting so it would have been two years this october there was some kinks that we needed to work out with this particular group i gonna say lost count of how many meetings we had with them but the matter changes and then the contract is coming down this way and you have these coming quick on an update with the general manager search the update is that on wednesday at six o'clock is going to the first meeting of the general manager search committee parts of that will be public meeting most of it will probably be an executive session if people are thinking of coming we have to pick a chairman thing and making a quick change with the program that we have in place so there's a program place today on class two charges which basically the nuts and bolts of it is customers receive approximately six dollars rebate and here for this program we finding it much much more difficult than dissipative working with the manufacturers because the class to charge is what they are the smart chargers so allows us to basically read into those chargers and make sure they're programmed for off peak charging hours and we repeat the customers or incentivize the customers to do that we having a difficult time getting the information from the from the  between the charger in the car and we were going to get the information from that piece of equipment as far as the charging schedule again this or finding it very challenging that piece of equipment hasn't hit the market yet we've been told it's  program but any charger that's a class two charger these customers will receive it and a dollar per month rebate hawksley ninety six dollars a year so we feel that for the amount of customers we have that would actually be a better incentive to our customers sounds good and i think there's that minutes from the regular executive session january twenty second two thousand and eighteen the motion no proof it was fine with them so moved the electric vehicle folks we ended up in a loop with the the solar people with a contract not very complicated and actually we ended up with a like a fifteen page so you want to make it easier or harder this makes it easier by charging them eight dollars a month you know so it's a really it's rather than good yeah it's a rebate or give or you're giving any yes connor our community services library ok mary ok so what are you all doing so i just i just have two little things that i want to address first and then i'd like to show you guys this video i'd be remiss if i didn't bring up the attack of violence at the winchester public library over the weekend that has kind of rocked the air i don't know if you guys were aware of that but an individual went into the winchester library with plans to have to be violent and in the loss of life so library directors another opportunity to do some training and a lot of new employees and we have certain policies and practices and we're going to set up some some kind of opportunity later in the month to do some lockdown procedures and drills and things like that and we're going to reach out to winchester directly and just let them know what  them well we understand in the public have to understand that those procedures can't be public for obvious reasons so we appreciate your attention to that in we also paid attention to the community this morning with the library and this is the way that we've chosen to celebrate so it's going to be a co sponsor event with the belmont garden club the belmont historical society the library foundation in the friends the belmont public library so friday night we'll have our first look reception will be catered they'll be a cash bar some live music and the floral arrangements on display with booked and so we look for it people come in and tickets are available right now and then we'll have some more free events throughout the weekend culminating with a birthday party for ellen will take care of that would be great so lastly i just wanted to introduce this video so we were looking for an opportunity to to share with the public all the great things that we do i guess to let people know all the things that we do and all the things that we do beyond what maybe they think you know the library of old is what's in people's memories but we do so much more than just offer a quiet space to read you know hundreds of programs and meetings and opportunities for community events every year so what we wanted to do was we launched a loop new logo last year and we took an opportunity then to begin this video process this p s a that would like to reveal t today so without further ado what i'm going to do is i'm just going to turn off the lights so that