good evening my name is roy epstein chair of the belmont warren committee had like to call our meeting of october twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen to order the genda tonight is approval of minutes a discussion with the school superintendent about the classrooms quick updates on the major capital projects working group and the i t m budget forecast study groups and updates from our leaders on business but before getting started with the formal agenda i just wanted to address briefly and issue that came to my attention when reviewing the video of the board of selectmen meeting on october third in the that meeting one of the members of the board of selectmen made a statement that's not quite accurate and i wanted to really for the benefit of the public to clarify any misimpression that might have been created  his exact words was were you guys referring to the warrant committee put people on a stopwatch you know you put people on a stop watch and it's sitting on r slap let me just make clear it's unnecessary for the members of this committee but for members of the public that the board of committee first off does not limit discussion by members of this committee in any way and as a matter of policy certainly during my tenure as chair of the last year and a half has been to encourage as much public participation as possible and i have made it clear that we will stop our business in mid syllable if necessary at nine fifteen twelve members of the public to speak before this committee and if there's a large crowd will stop even sooner because i think public participation is critical of the one time i think there has been a time limit i just not one time but the one situation where there's a time limit is when we have invited speakers and the evening is crowded to the point where i think it's important to put a time limit on the speaker a reasonable time a bit on speakers so all speakers who are present will have a chance to speak in the also be a reasonable discussion afterwards and in that case that i have asked speakers to limit themselves  in no case to less than ten minutes but it is not true emphatically that we put a stop watch on anybody so i just wanted to discuss that for a moment and with that i'd like to turn to the minutes from our last meeting which i think are ready for approval so it's more of acceptance is there a second all those in favor ready to talk about the need for the acquisition of the modulus where they'll be placed how it will be installed what services expected from them one of the cost how  i don't know whether the the term working group but the you know not to let form get in the way of substance i think at this point that we have a couple of weeks until town out to bid so it would be in the spring town meeting that the funds for actual construction would be requested yes the police station  that assuming that the planning is approved in november the police station concepts still needs a little bit more evaluation and if  also hoping that it's not necessary the funding strategy for both them for the modulars the d p w work and the police station work would involve or it would be we would be getting creative with potential sale of some assets and it gets a little involved because there are some projects for which the de  all right let me then move briefly to the other items on the agenda in terms of an update for the magic major capital projects working group  i'm not a parliamentarian but i i believe if somebody of a member of a committee misses three consecutive meeting that it there that person can be difficulty of drafting something on the fly i would like to propose that lisa send me this draft language and i would work on it between now and the next meeting and in the her tax them whatever shape it's in now she consented to members of this committee you can send me not not c c all but just send me your