we're going to go into executive session and the agenda is here somewhere thank you to conduct a strategy session in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel we have a motion please remove second own favor michael i i items three the discussion a plan for acting interim permanent general manager appointment process we're going to move ahead to well we should do for we're going to do for the right you know we're going to move ahead to four which is discussion and vote to appoint craig's been ali acting general manager of the belmont light department  so we've we've met with craig craig has expressed a willingness in an interest in accepting an offer and offers been negotiated a letter has been provided to craig i might be worth noting for the public that when we say we met with craig we individually met with craig we didn't meet with craig in the violation of the open meeting law from public just to be good thank you adam for that looking to jump right in as you know i have a great team of employees behind me with me so i just want to assure residents about the level of service they've come to expect will so we we have we have a job description for the general manager which you've seen just like we have a charge for the  municipal light by three committee which you're aware of i understand that you're having a meeting on august twenty first and you have to say to you want the committee to review those with with craig yes absolutely and come to some agreement on implementation and maintenance and you know however you all see it and you mutual understanding with the with regard to those i think of it was twelve wasn't it is my memory is serving me well the number may be eleven or twelve or ten or eleven got it but that you were talking about the same document a list ok we couldn't talk about it until we had our meeting today and made the appointment and you've seen it steve i think i said if you did yes so we need to have some kind of action plan along along those items  one of them required a general manager signature for someone and i believe yes again i'm speaking from memory but you all can handle that you know august tenth or do you want to do it between now and august  responsibilities and tail activities are you aware of things that still need to be done with regard to the substation project even though it's been energized yet yes there are several tasks that we have to complete  mainly converting cutting over the existing substations in town to the new survey no i was kind of considering that you know the next project so i do sense  question is the substation has been energized and is there anything that needs to be done on the substation project on the standalone basis do you have things to do with every source is there anything  were they were in the process posing on that project ok so there's a pundit list or me yes there may be just some minor things to ok complete their ok so then then we turn to the next series of projects which for the public we've discussed this before there are three substations in town once of generally once at the high school and one's mind us here next to the police station and what you're going to do is you're going to hook the blair pond substation up to the distribution system is that what you're doing it when you decommission them yes yes we are going to so today presently the three substation actually a ten year master plan to then convert the voltages in the circuits that are in these existing substations to the blip on substation and decommission the substation the older substations as we go describing exactly yes yes so that in the grand scheme of the substation project as belmont light knows that that was the completion of the project to research the existing substation standpoint you're not going to be doing all three one no certainly not to be you'll be cutting over one and then you do that successfully then you cut over the other then you cut over there and then when you start working on the distribution system voltages convert the circuits that are in the older substations to blip pond and retiring and removing the older equipment if you know which substation you're going to start with in general our thought process was to start right here in downtown at four fifty concord our main station that's all going to the certain going to be the most challenging in station that we have but that was the one we were going to attack first try to concentrate and i think it would be great if town each time but different areas of the town will experience a one hour outage as we do this cut over so the plan today as we sit here is to cut over by the just before labor day to have all three substations cut over to  pond and then after that there should be no outages with the continuation of our work to convert and retire the existing substations and to do you have anything that you understand over the next four weeks let's say a show i think craig said it pretty well the public these understand these are planned outages these are going on it's lack outs and that we will be giving people i thought was just a lot of you a thousand times but yeah i think we'll be giving the usual three one one kind of call out to people so letting them know what will be happening in their neighborhood so they can plan in advance i thought process was that we would send out some communication at a high level then find the four dates and as we successful management of the company on an ongoing basis craig again congratulations and thank you but we are considering two things with regard to the municipal li the selectmen and we have a municipal light advisory committee that we appoint and the advisory committee reports to the municipal light board but according to its closely with the general management in what we'd like to do is to have the conference management center take a look at that that structure and see if if they if they have any suggestions or recommend nations force and phyllis maybe you could say you've talked to collins for a couple of times about this and could you describe what discussions you've had a real scope of services with regard to governance i had a brief conversation actually earlier last week and we talked about some of the concerns that have been expressed and interest and so he's going to work on a draft  so i'm going to contact other municipal light hartman's and i mean us both and cities who have proceeded with a search for a general manager in the past and talk with them about how us ok thank you well i think that's the way to go and i think we should note that the common centers out of you mass boston and also that they are pre approved they're exempt from the process and there are final item that i'd like to propose for my colleagues consideration and that is that i would like to for us to consider having adam become the chairman of the  adam has you know done a good job in terms of involving himself in the permanent audit committee which reviews the light board financials i know you've enjoyed the  resolved the contract issue with with our previous general manager that we have kind of a new slate to work on and on the town side mark and i and of course you're you're you're in the town side too you know we have we have a lot of things going on in the towns like we like to read you know we have this capital that you know it's very the way neither asked for nor sought the position but i will s so we're not suggesting any other change you know i think i didn't the story but i think i think just to be clear we want everybody to understand and i think you know sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow so i'm comfortable you know working  the selectors again i don't have to be vice chair and i think i think this is the best way to divide our duties going forward because we have so many things going on and you'll obviously be involved in them too but that gives us a chance to to work on those things separately thank you and happy to help you ok great is there any do you have anything else or not the to are you happy that you were