colleagues and the first order of business is really if there are any questions from town residents of topics not covered elsewhere in our agenda yes these i go to if you don't mind go to the mike identify yourself and ask us your question john mercia tell me member of precinct say this regarding a study has been bounced around quite a bit of it as and when really to the subject of the parking of belmont savings bank now as you know about one third of the town meeting do not vote for this for this project i did not speak at the time means i don't want to disturb what was going on business so because it was brought up before but that's come you want to major changes is probably the major change of that whole program and as you know you people have received the data will be put in front of you with fifteen with fifteen or five thousand people opinion on it and it's certainly not going to be i'm drawing down to broadcast in that way the people who talk to me about it is concerned about the what we've been meeting on belmont center and we understand the issues with that parking we've met with the council on aging related to those parking spaces in particular because you know being angled parking they feel very comfortable if they have to exit a car with us with a scooter or a walker or a wheelchair that they have the space to do it without being in traffic we've heard that we're going to deal with it as far as an alternate we can't wait till april there's no way that this decision will wait till april that they're not going to happen you mustn't you mustn't but we will be looking at alternate but the alternate process of what's included in the belmont center bid or not is going to be particularly based on price and quite frankly if we don't do that it might be cheaper we may be forced into not doing that road but the whole issue a center is going to be looked at as what's the best way to get the price that we need so it will be still being looked at but we're dealing with the issue of those parking space yes but this is not the form where we're going to get into too much detail on this no one on my suggestions is so you don't slow up the bidding on the project as it's scheduled to go on you bid the project the way you know the way it either is or you're proposing including that piece and you also have a subsection of without it so they're going to give it to an alternate and we're prepared to have a list of all that it's on this project this may well end up being one of them their other alternate is being considered because we need to have a project that we can afford and then we can add alternates as we need to so i understand the concept of the alternate it's not a bad one and we're working on the alternate right now would you not be interested  working on this i take your comments seriously but this is really not the forum to get into too much more detail with very detail as what we're going through but it's about getting the right price on this thing one of the detail that i think you should be concerned with is people have commented to me about the sidewalks and we have in a way very square with with the with them various markings and noone not having that the it's strictly smoove sidewalks you understand what i'm saying a it's a it's a state road card well my center is a catastrophe and shopping center that types of pavement and the way it's designed are dramatically different and we're working on those details as well look you know th residents topics not on our agenda now ok thank you the first item on the agenda our treasurer floyd carman would like us to sign the massachusetts clean water million dollars of permanent notes throughout the state that are going to roll into this so i think we might get a very attractive rate if you look at past practices the interest cost in this has been probably less than that's it they tracked this all along and now the work has been completed and we're going to roll this into the permanent marling so if i understand the point of no it's become clear to me we've already we've used temporary bar do what's really been completed to do the work right here no asking us to harmonize you to make it permanent right twenty approach to twenty a permanent right pay down the temporary notes that we will do away with all of the temporary you're showing here at earth we had a couple meetings with the neighbors we also had i was the town planning meeting good serving people as it has been well received really not doing that much to the belly my goal is really to work with the details that we had when i it says that we're in an article they cannot hear us so the audio is not working but i see that seriously i think you've done a wonderful job and you know your model of the community library deserves to be replicated throughout and i hope i hope that opportunity arises really  have this amendment a license agreement is made on this fifteenth day of december two thousand and fourteen between the town of belmont acting through its board of selectmen and the friends of benton library and in massachusetts nonprofit corporation having their dress at p o box for twenty five belmont massachusetts zero two four seven eight whereas the down and the friends of benton library and entered into a license agreement dated december twenty eighth two thousand and ten whereby the town agreed that the licensee could enter upon the premises for the purpose of operating a library whereas the town is the owner of record of property and premises known as the everett c benton library located at seventy five zero p road belmont massachusetts and where as the term of the license expires on december thirty first two thousand and fourteen and the license wishes to extend the term of the license through december thirty one two thousand and sixteen where as the licensee in the town have agreed to extend the term of the license through december thirty one two thousand and sixteen now therefore for valuable consideration the receipt the sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged the parties agree as follows term the term of the license is here by extended to and shall expire on december thirty one two thousand and six of the covenants agreements terms conditions and other provisions of the license are in full force and effect and unmodified except as altered by this agreement in witness whereof the parties here to have executed this agreement on the year and say a general information question to pose to the to bet rather representatives i knew there was some activity at the bat library obviously i didn't know that there was so much is the bad library designation as the great community as a great community thirteen of their thirteen this year one hundred thirty six total in the common while we were if you look at the map the green communities we were like this little white spot surrounded involves just so people understand that you know you don't do nothing and get money for we have to commit to over all kinds of improvements to our utilities and so on in order to try and save twenty percent of our energy in the next five years you know to cut back on money in it and so we save money by cutting back on energy but it costs us a lot to do that so one of the things the state when you add in that you save energy if you get the twenty percent savings the accumulated savings over time that plus these grantley payouts now make it a reasonable responsible commitment of sound funds to do  point the other nice thing about this program is many of the improvements that we've agreed in our application to make our improvements that we'd have to make anyways because equipment you know  so we're able to pass on some of that cost and hopefully get grants from the state to help us pay for those necessary improvements which will at the same time of course save energy so so it is a wonderful program i would just like to thank the efforts of the energy committee sustainable belmont and gerry boyle i know you worked all very hard on this and only shows off to the rest of the t v i'm yes i'm just going to read off the names of people who work on this because they they deserve you know to be to be noted i know jerry as i've done my facilities director pretty much bare headed this obviously he worked with david kay all the time to min of these programs to figure out what precisely you could do and you machado from the cadmus group who also helped on the from the energy committee we had roger call the s really did the lion's share of the work to do to get this application in the form to be you know in which they could be approved and it wasn't you know the selectmen the board selected we had to commit the long term expenditure of the of some of the funds to do this but we were happy to do it and i think and i speak my colleagues you know that and i've been but we were happy to do it when we saw the type of doctor and the opposition and the community behind us so we're very proud and they gave us in addition to the check you see over there they give us a frank designation plaque as well as four of these road signs that we're supposed to put up around very proud of the designation and we're going to work very hard to try and meet these targets were asking for all your help everybody i mean whether whether we're bought whether we're whatever you can do is being captured in this analysis of the twenty percent or not it doesn't matter do everything you could do to reduce your energy you lose it it would help open to leave anyway whether we can you know make the numbers work if it is twenty percent or not is irrelevant we will work the numbers to make  you know get our twenty percent but each and every one of us needs to work in our own homes and businesses to try to reduce energy consumption just in general are not only for your pocketbook you'll save money but for the good of the climate and reduce our and to make sure that we were creating a more sustainable environment for our kids and grandkids great thanks jerry you did a great job thank you very much anything else they've illusion and i think you capsulated that and let me i like that make a statement here i'm going to recuse myself from discussion just as one brief i don't i'll step out of the room i have it it's a sign that being your plan or a road flanders road for access to blair prop pond basically the request is to approve the construction of a sign that basically allows the individuals to see the d c our blair pond significant amount of money on the blip on reservation which is at the end of flanders road this particular gentleman feels like that is an asset that very few people are aware of in feels that the sign would be a good opportunity to let people be aware of the resource that is at the end of flanders road there is an element of a sponsorship here with a fresh one animal hospital having their name also on the sign but the goal here is ultimately to have the public become more aware of gaston that is blair pond in the reservation around it in the hope is that as more people are attracted to blair pond with the construction of the municipal light substation on flanders road the process was that we just locate it properly obviously there's motor vehicles coming out of fleet is row turning onto brighton street so we want to make sure that it's located so that it doesn't create an impediment to people driving otherwise  selectmen so my opinion really doesn't matter in that regard my personal feeling is that that's so i mind a trade off it's around the nation yeah i you know i have as i said i think making the public more aware of the resource that is blair part is a good thing that left of that correct it's not so it's a bit so it's within the layout of creighton street which is the public right of way so it'll be the it'll be the back edge of sidewalk on brighton street which is with it within the public way and under the purview of the board of selectmen if it's appropriate to have or received eleven applications for our five seats on this committee and just to be clear  term for the initial five committee members will be set to expire on june thirtieth two thousand and seventeen which will be a temporary committee that the board of selectmen will dissolve once they have completed the implementation of community path route options selected by the board of select the committee will also be asked to identify funding sources for a feasibility study of the route options which will be a technical  is that our responsibility yeah i thought in other words are they come to us and say you should take the money from free free cash or you should i think i think that in terms of a global perspective i think this committee will try to seek out some grant resources so if in fact to grant resources either at the federal or state level as part of their investigation of identifying funding could pay for the initial study that something would would like them to investigate but that this spot needs to commit somehow and well we need to identify the source of those funds but we need to identify files to do a feasibility study with the feasibility study to other government grants for the implementation but we need that these abilities study in hand and part of this committee's work will be to manage that feasibility study and also help us identify sources of funding if there are no public sources of funding available for the feasibility study and i don't know that there are we well the board of selectmen will identify funding and we'll have to you know figure out how that i think is in unity i should say i think you are right in caps playing with what the multi tast charge will be because i think one of the components would be to clearly have the town understand what are the things that we need to have in place so that we can enter for grants and what is the milestones that we need to achieve both from a timing standpoint in terms of having what percentage of design drawings ready to go to apply for a transportation improvement grant and the like so i think it's sort of making sure we understand exactly with through investigation about what the possibilities are what those milestones and timelines could be but but shouldn't they should in that process be identified before we commit to spending one hundred thousand i think having a road map to say that if in fact you want to you if in fact you want to get an application in for outside resources at the either the federal or state level this is what you need to have in hand in order to  application and that will determine what percentage of our design drawings need to be completed and what level of feasibility needs it completed so i think it sort of goes in tandem to understand what you need to bring to the table to do an application and what level effort that requires study and it's not a time year because there are some parts of this really as recommended by the community advisory committee there are some parts of this room of this side you know community out the way there are options there couple of options for  that decision is a good one and we're certainly you know open to that will go that route to cost is important and you know relative you know utility is important and all of those so i would say that right now was not set in stone that we would expect that the feasibility study would give us some input on the broad options before we make up our mind so that's one thing the other thing is  we can get funding for earlier and pursue funding for other phases out there but the the the ultimate intent isn't for a study or for pretty i mean it's for a physical that being built that actually serves the town and that mitigates any negative impacts and highlights all the positives that she could bring so that's the track line you know into them and a couple things have come out one is just to do a feasibility study for the out of the engineers for the  that it was a five million dollars problem now that to me you know somebody who's a little bit about the construction sounds really hot but they didn't think so they did not think so and if in fact that underpass is a five million dollars project i think it's probably you know at least at this point out of our reach but we will keep you know strategizing with it as a concept in order to make sure that if we can do it that it does work with the community but it does seem like a stretch they're saying it's five million dollars for construction you know and that probably could say you me that you're right of the five you and your other yes but and i think that and i think part of the implementation committee is you know charter i think it has to be tied to ensure community have funding perhaps that is their money that might be able to fund this path but quite frankly it doesn't seem feasible for this board just back to you know to really get behind spending eighty thousand dollars for a feasibility study for a project that cost five million dollars that we know we can't afford so so you know going head to head with the fed and mark said i think we need to expand these a little bit of the committee and maybe that's something that that would work let's work on the charge we should work on just to make it clear how they interact with the committee and then we'll move on to making our five appointments the applicants received today which is close to ready is brian burke and forgive me if i say anybody's name  obviously very about involving construction estimating and building for decades and certainly knows how to put things together i think you'd be very useful i was going to a second various involvements professions and skill sets by the people who are applying for it sample people who are engineers we have people who are community volunteers we have people some of the africans said that you know have have been nominated and i'm thinking of brian burke to have some of that surveying slash maybe engineering and real estate can no doubt we have many qualified out of here and that's what makes this such a difficult decision but but mark i would agree with you that this is a very deliberate and awful person and  for that he did serve on the initial committee is that he will help provide that continuity i'm hoping with with brian so i could support that right so i think that is something that's a fact that being said think he doesn't make decisions on the fly ok he's a town meeting member he's certainly a respected town meeting member you can bring forward some of the continuity having served on the previous  committee and you know in my experience to have everyone with a single skill set is not always production if so to have a committee made up of all engineers you know helpful road he's actually my neighbor i absolutely i think that i've been so from my point of view there are still problems to be useful and the way i look at mr stand is someone who is in looking to find a solution even though he may have a point of view and be passionate about it i think he's someone who will try to figure out what makes sense for this community moving forward accident and that's why i support him ok homer's leader and i know how busy as he travels extensively travels abroad as well as other individuals that have been appointed i think we'll find someone invents and others that we've just appointed that will look and clearly those who have who applied and were appointed to means clearly i would seem to me that this new committee will continue t aking put from the from those individuals involved as well i mean a lot of money so yeah this is not even if it was an easy solution would have been solved ten years ago before this port said here it isn't but i think you're hearing from us that we are committed  and committee by committee and and make appointments energy committee there's one vacancy from the summer there are two applicants that have expressed interest on this committee charles shan well we've appointed on mercier to the energy committee right so so i think it's a you know it's a board to solicit as many different talents on committees as as possible we we  do have three applicants here housing trust is currently working on a housing production potable whole production plan and i guess you know my question is between susan burgess caught madeline frazier whom i don't believe i know and probably olson who would have the best professional experience or would feel said to help yeah good voices human rights commission there's one vacancy and there's one applicant they have approached me that the commission very much supporting this applicant recreational facilities and properties and so so is she she is one who has i think any fresh ideas and you know that that can only be a help for any committee so i  would nominate and i'll get to the recreation commission second i have a nomination i have a second all those in favor say aye miss help get his on the recreation  sloman is certainly a wonderful person qualified active has been on the retirement board and has done a great job evelyn para lampel is an attorney i believe that belmont for a long time so they are both i think you know excellent and very qualified candidates so i know this you know i mean if if if you're fine with him if you think we should you know from the summer we have four applicants trussell laying out elizabeth d r osteen only child cult and three associate members who may be appointed to  form explain that to us please mr ware you have vacancies so basically you just like to play any board where folks who serve as alternate or associate members can be moved up to full membership status so elizabeth dion i'm not sure i know for i mean certainly she's an attorney and you know she she's very well qualified i think zoning board is traditionally a board currently serves on the conservation commission but he too is an attorney you know as well i did have the chance to be with him and you know he was enthusiastic about serving on the zoning board but the only thing permanent members are there yes the social never kid stand in yes here she has been at the yes there's a lot of applicants that i've never vote ok ok so well we're going to want a full member from these three that you know i think we have to really be you know second that yes but just as for the discussion point if he is going to leave the conservation commission that's fine we do need to find a that why don't we wait on the executive session till the end and we'll move to these actions by consent and will will do the kind of ministers report afterwards that ok with you so to refile and be reapproved renew their license by december thirty first the way we're going to do this is there are several categories of licenses we're going to read the category of the license and we're going to redeploy all the people or  that are applying for that renewal and then we'll vote them in as a block and that will be the next license and so on and so forth so for example the first license is the common the ability to move in operate his new space with the conditions approved by the board and so what we will be doing is i know that this week there was a good resolution to signage based upon the zoning by law to basically have signed the move so i think wait a minute about having the applicant be right open for business and we've had conversations with the applicant to make sure that there is a debt and straighten that the the restrictions in the conditions that have were applied plan is to be open very shortly there was a few conversations with regard to his final signage that had to be worked out my understanding is of today that has been approved that was one of the last items that  outstanding again going and i've had conversations to make sure that this is moving and his department is cooperating so we will again follow up to see what's left on the table but minus a talk the op can he get open very quickly  if the previous license had conditions haven't been completed and why we understand was that i was for the fire that's a twelve thirty one forty yes so this is the fifteen license but the first one conditions were met and the sign your a b c application prior to november thirtieth so we had a detailed conversation that before we would be able to grant his full retail alcohol license that we will need to have evidence and demonstration in writing that all the conditions of the license have been license now should we just wait for the conditions to be met and then what do we lose by just waiting and then once the conditions are met as we outlined previously then we could take a vote to award this license the reason we're doing these now is so that these individuals can remove resume business as of one one twenty fifteen a loading dock has no business to resume on one one twenty fifty because they never met the conditions that we are one unit to applications so would we just wait until those conditions are to approve all alcohol retail liquor license for the loading dock eleven brighton street subject to his compliance with the conditions that we in both in our previous approval and subject to his payment here it's actually in your package ok and so as you're aware the approval of these licenses require the approval of various departments in town and the compliance you have to make those things out which we gave you a memo on today so in the event that between now and the end of the year these businesses are able to come to comply either through having departmental approval sign off or to have any outstanding payments matter what the board has been able to do is provide to the town i'm in a straighter authority to approve those license only t yes so there are outstanding payments to that have basically at this point we think we've resolved all those right now we're in code violations that need to be resolved matter is chairman you know i've been listening to our treasurer and he says it's better to have a business in business pay their debts rather not so i completely understand i don't understand why the payments are being made in the way but i know we charge and they clearly understand our ability license that we've worked through have been resolved either through payment issues with the treasurer some of which which deal with sign offs by our various partners whether it's a fire department or commute development we cannot issue a recommend a license unless it was a signed read as follows and i read it move to renew those licenses previously issued by the board pursuant to chapter one forty of the generalized all of those licensees to whom the town clerk sent renewal notices for the year two thousand and fourteen as little about the two th outstanding violations are unpaid taxes and there would be if it's a payment plan under the statutes basically under chapter forty section fifty seven basically the treasury's authorized to enter into a payment plan and it allows in his view that the tax is a wild steve utility fields again what we've done is basically the treasurer works with the businesses without steam balances and we get confirmation that he feels comfortable the payment fifteenth two thousand and fourteen meeting the reasons for holding an executive session as part of the meeting are as follows to conduct strategy sessions or preparation for the versions of the nine year personnel or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or