from town residents for items not on the agenda items not on the agenda scene that will close that portion of the meeting actions by consent number one proclamation for tired animal control officer john we have a lovely largely i just want to say john i work with you over the years and you've been and i think it's terrific animal control officer and i think you've educated this community particularly about coyotes and and the fact that they are not to be feared wildlife while respecting and caring for these natural inhabitants johns kept open spaces safe while dog owners like me enjoy parks and time well spent with community members and their pups in most towns animal control is like a four letter word here in belmont johns taught us including our children so much about the balances between animals and humans and money able to attend this b o s meeting but i want to ensure that you know how much our community appreciated working with john over the years aaron movie and so i want to as well as read that into the record thank you to aaron thank you john may and thirty thousand dollars one hundred million dollars for the belmont high school there was roughly another seven may point for  in john ma show i don't want to miss anyone here dan di again anthony de conklin and from the school department glen castro and we had to bring dave pedal into it because it was mighty questions where one of nine community simak commonwealth massachusetts out of three hundred and fifty one dollars that have a aaa so that's a major milestone for the town of belmont now just to what we ultimately going to finance it's one hundred and two million thirty thousand dollars the difference being six million seventy thousand dollars that we received in premium money so the belmont precise number for the benefit of the viewing audience as far as the benefit for the taxpayer because i'm working with the end i can in the assessor's office but i can tell you this is probably going to save this five million dollars translates into question always comes up who bought i bonds j p morgan what was the true interest cost thirty year note true interest cost three point three one  the double triple a ratings as i always point out when i say the little bit of luck i should send my good friend the fed chairman a fruit basket because when he stopped raising those discount rates it had a major impact on this so this is the luck part of a timing is everything so we hit this at the perfect time for thirty years thirty years we lock that in my back it is just  so people who say this isn't the bonding for the whole project the bonding is going in phases in stage i don't need all the money all at one time so to answer those questions because i get this question all the time why don't we go out and borrow two hundred and twelve million all at once well these are obligation bonds now and taxable we need to spend the money in eighteen to twenty four months so it's time to case that we can what borrow all of this and have it hang around for three or four years the reviewed every paragraph every question we were supplying them information probably made up to two weeks ago to make sure that this financing was letter perfect this you know that if you if you go through the the staring pores in the moody's rating actual the detail of it they praise belmont for its sound financial fiscal management which i think is a testament to everybody a lot of the people in this room here and in the audience tonight on how we got here so this this was mandated by the people that are buying our bonds yeah this what this wasn't this wasn't something we signed up for so j p morgan asked that we have breaking rated by both moody's all seven of the point then we will given that there is a meaningful savings to the taxpayer we will deal that town meeting some of our borrowing will we do that this year or you will see me tom standing up there in june could be authorizing five team they're over there they've done their job we had a few cleanup items but that meant six we're also going to be i thought i saw it's a standard operation to kind of reduce those types of things i never lose  also a taxpayer but also keeps our bonding capacity higher yes absolutely you know i just because of the magnitude of what we're going to be voting on tonight and see if anyone the public had any comments on this matter c n n we will close up official statement each in each each in such form as may be approved by the town treasurer being here by a ratified confirmed approved and adopt it for the move the board vote that the bonds shall be subject to redemption at the option direct the town treasure to establish post insurance federal tax compliance procedures in such form as the town treasurer in bonn council deemed sufficient or in such procedures are currently in place to review and update said procedures in order to monitor and maintain the determined by them or any of them to be necessary or convenient to carry into effect for visions of the foregoing votes second all those in favor so it's real assist the town from the standpoint of making sure that we have very compliant techs will want is a small group that we have set up i'm going to call it the cash flow management group it's made up of  from the building project going castro from the town administrative office and shane nolan from dedalus we're going to be meeting once a month on a thursday we will be tracking the expenditure as the cash flow and the m s p a reimbursement so critical piece of this puzzle because one we want to make sure you know ready made and back into we want to stay in only during the early voting period before the state election in november that electioneering as defined under chapter fifty four dollars section sixty five dollars would not be permitted at town hall because we became  voting place during the early voting period at that time we suggested that maybe we should look at whether that was successful or are there any problems with that and consider doing that before each one of our elections for in person absentee voting which happens about three weeks or so before every election and then for the state early voting define periods so that's why i'm back there was this is just to make sure people basically aren't i'm campaigning in town hall during outside the ballot time correct because it becomes a polling place and i know absentee voting by the way is underway downstairs for those who qualify and this is and we have as a pilot program just for the public in the fall for the fall election with the early voting we had a pilot program seemed to work well so this is to make  during that time and it is applicable at this point only at the hall because that is the only place that we do early voting and in person absentee at this point and this vote would cover all future election that's correct but this week a permanent you know because we've done it as a pilot program definitely discussion about expanding it to primaries but there's no discussion about allowing basically no excuse absentee voting before a local elections privileges and doesn't the city really vote if it does this is this is applicable this policy is affable for all early voting periods as defined by the legislature which is only available at state elections at this point as well as in person absentee and that covers all links of time you're indicating to the federal right wh actions of voters footprint that zero ad or within one hundred feet of the entrance and finally three hundred and fifty feet should meet of the entrance of polling places and election of federal state or local offices where as an increasing percentage of belmont voters are taking advantage of their right in opportunity to vote in person by absentee ballot or during the early voting period established by the legislature in come to the town offices at four hundred and fifty five concord haven't you in order to obtain absentee ballots were cast early ballots where such voters should be given the during in person absentee voting or the early voting period would not unduly restrict the ability of any person to display with stupid campaign messages to prospective voters approaching the town offices in whereas the board of selectmen has the care custody control of the town offices a fifty five concord avenue and the surrounding sidewalks in may regulate a carry their on now therefore divorce like when it drops the following regulation for the period designated for in person absentee voting in the state's early voting period no poster card in bill placard picture or circular intended to influence the action of the voter other than those expressly authorized by general washed up to fifty four dollars section sixty five dollars shall be posted exhibited circulated distributed in the town clerk's office in the building where the  office is located on the walls there off on the premises and which the town offices at forty five dollars could i would you stand or within one hundred and fifty feet of the building entrance door to said town offices given under our hearings this th day of march two thousand present possible outline as to how to move forward with a police chief search so i had just a quick memo in regards to some things we were thinking about that the board could consider one of the things in the memo provided is the option of having an internal search st as an external search as the board is aware you have recently done external searches for my position can write so there's a there's a consistency with external searches so we did that we also proposed a timeline and a search committee we guard the so whether or not it's internal or external search committee would have to put together a timeline would have to be put together we're hoping to have somebody in place by november so there'll be a nice transition with the chief leaving so i guess we're looking for direction guards to how you want to kind of proceed with what the police  i mean there's a we've as you said the other positions that report to us we've used we've done an outside search internal candidates have applied it's kind of you know there's a plot plus and minus the one hand you don't want to discourage people who are internal about moving up on the other hand you don't really know what's out there and so you start looking and we've actually made several hires from outside going into the process not even sure that would happen but getting blown away by the candidates that we received so sort of doesn't going outside doesn't preclude internal people from applying obviously and they may end up being the only finalists that are part of hiring a consultant to do that do the process which we've done with the general manager and with john a minister we hired group white to do those processes but i believe for the for this remember the st r p for the search company had to go out again because there weren't there weren't it was only one applicant or something and then we had to put we had to choose or no applicants we had to change the wording of the r p for the search company and we understand is that it was this it that's why we're starting it so soon because  takes longer so if you didn't choose the internal route i think it would be a search committee would be put in place it would still be quicker if you did the internal rhythm whether the internal and i think i wouldn't i mean want to stretch well when you want money yeah  understand that point but but but you know if you want me thought i think i think i do want your thoughts were so so i i would i would favor sort of a two step approach because i think there are a number of men and women police officers within our current find a lot of very qualified candidates if we established through the search consultant or perhaps with you jessica the requirements or the level of expertise in experience that we're looking for and what the requirements are and you can even have an assessment center as part of that would have you know folks that that currently are there that would apply even if you were to go external right off the bat i just worry that if you did that would you discouraged internal candidate from not with jessica porter human into this we ended up with the right one group of applicants for both and we ended up choosing outside people and honestly did something that wasn't quite sure that was ever going to happen it's just like you know i i i prefer and i think i have to recuse from this if in fact  candidates and i'm intrigued by the idea of a two step process but i guess i do wonder if we were to bring the consultant on are there different rates depending upon how long we gauge them how many steps in the process is there a cost savings to be had or at it may be a two step with great different two different payments depending upon what services are asked to be it was very helpful having grew white in the other processes because you know we were elected officials were not human resources experts it was very helpful to have some external people who had who knowledge of other towns who worked with other towns have done searches for something like a police chief i know i grew white had done police chief searches in other towns and they knew people if they could and some of the candidates came in because grew white call and said hey there's a job opening a bomb i know you're looking you silly apply so we would never of done no not without grew white so they can help us source candidates i guess the other thought that i have is if we were to initiate a two step process does the consultant help us understand what the market is what's available out there and help us look at our internal candidates versus that market maybe give us some guidance as to whether or not we'll get it but i'm not yes so i guess i'm saying that you know regardless of what we do i would think the consultant could be you know money well spent to help us ensure it wasn't you money to be fair i mean grew white what actually was the other was the cheapest of of unique job or no in the community is well that's very point so it's kind of that's the pits a different thing than being general manager of the my wife so it's a it is a different deal i think point someone that you know and we have a lot of talented police officers in front some that will be interested in this job you know in the community you know the people here working with the department of the would be important but we also want to ensure we hire the best qualified candidate it's an important job that's not the only criteria for me and that's why i'm wondering if the consultant then helps us helps working with that search committee determine based upon an assessment of the internal candidates are we comfortable that we have someone who is meeting the objectives or do we feel the need to open it up to do that i mean reading and you both of you could establish a mean you conversations with the police chief there he's done a lot of work since he's been here two suspects succession plan and i was ready to lose that work that he has done i'd like to do i mean i would recommend doing that for us but but have a short sort of a fuse on that it's not the sort of delay the process that also just talk about the search committee briefly that the idea of the search committee consisting of and this is something i talked about last time when we're due for a juror not not having one of us on the search committee because we're the ultimate hi hiring folks and i thought a little i wasn't really keen on having a sitting selectman on the search committee to vet it however i ended up getting tapped to be on the search committee for the gentlemen for belmont light and jim williams was on the search committee for ten minutes straight or i wasn't terribly thrilled with that process i like the fact the putting mark on here was a recent and he's going to be like up kind of like when but not longer us like me that actually kind of threads that needle per haven't quite cooled off yet ok well and the law enforcement background your family i think you've got it and they wanted to serve at your pleasure that would be great and then superintendent john failon a representative from belmont schools like a principal two of citizens from belmont people could apply i will put out a request a representative from council on aging president or  love the fact thank you for having some of them see a way on it as well and this was also with this outside police chief this is what grew white help us with general manager from bell like group white someone who went out and found us a general manager from a different light department to put on the commit pointed in two thousand and seven the board at the time was very direct in the sense of what they gave me as far as much in one as i would say they made it quite clear that they wanted some type of succession planning in place and to  st year that i was made the chief i had the opportunity to promote three lieutenants a captain and three saddam's within the st year and move again that upon full i've taken that part of my job very seriously and given the opportunity in the fine people in the department i think it's important that we continue that in two thousand and twelve assistant chief lane informed me he was retiring at that point in time i looked internally to see what we had for people interviewed three people in the department and i chose assistant chief jamie my guys at the time who was a lieutenant so that in the idea that we could continue the process that we had been working together as a team to move t department forward i just want to keep that in mind and have i know the decision is yours but i think it's important that you keep that piece in mind so that we can continue the progress that has been made i truly believe as well in the team and the department itself but we've got a lot of things going on as you know we've got the renovation project coming up and we have a lot of other things going on as well but i would just think and hope that you keep and consider community and i don't want to lose sight of that i've been very fortunate in my piece of being appointed as the police chief and i want to thank the town in the community but i think again moving forward i think we should keep a lot of those things in mind and i know jeff said mention it in the in the memo about the morale upward movement all those things you want to consider because i've got to tell you honestly as you mentioned each one of you we've got a lot of good people over there  department i got to tell you honestly i'm very proud of the men and women of the department and they do a great job front of our community but i just want i don't want to lose sight of that and i just want to keep on moving forward so i think that police chief or your community is a little different and as i said i mean you look at somebody that has you know been very involved in the community has the knowledge of the community and that's what we need to make sure  evening gentlemen mr chairman and members of board thank you for your opportunity to speak my name is todd minute a resident belmont i've been a belmont police officer for over fifteen years i'm here representing the members of the belmont police department i've had the opportunity to work with several chiefs over the as and realize how important it is to hire from within the ranks of the belmont police when i heard there would be a discussion about the cheese process and the possibility of the town spending the upwards of twenty five thousand dollars on a consultant for a nationwide search i had to voice my opinion as a town resident and officer of the belmont police the same issue was discussed by the selectmen and the police unions in two thousand and five and agreement was reached to always look from within st if unsuccessful hiring from the outside can be risky costly it could cause this department to become a revolving door and offices and supervises would have to undergo a change in strategy every three is the belmont police offices supervises and residents watching this meeting in a very concerned with the possibility of the town spending thousands of dollars on an outside search when they are viable candidates inside the department why not interview these candidates  st then go to the outside if necessary we have candidates within our own ranks that have accepted chief jobs in the past and will finalist for others in neighboring communities that trying to hire from within is overwhelming watertown lexington waltham an island and all have high it all will hire from within most communities a staying with internal viable candidates the candidates that we have in belmont a highly qualified and have similar or better resumes the most recent chief appointments from other communities why is there a need to validate this with a nationwide search we are currently involved in a renovation project that will take a few years and we feel this is not the time to bring in an outside person it would take several years for an outside chief to come in and get used to the department personnel in town itself with this run of ation going on this would add more responsibilities and create undue stress and stability issues with potman there are several current bum on offices who already have options to move to other departments by going through a wasteful outside search them around this department will suffer and people will leave i have seen this before we had morale issues in the past and lost twenty five percent of us want offices that came with a total of twelve offices in our department that transferred out a dominant over a short period of time the numeric cost of the time was hundreds of thousands of dollars but the quality of the offices and what they had to offer is unmeasurable i would like to summarize within a few points we already have candidates within the department to take the chief job and immediately take this department to the next level the candidates we have a going to have a vested interest in improving the quality of life for the town's community members and a genuine concern for the office as well being our offices believe in our internal candidates and believe it would be it would allow for an easy transition through these tough times and outside candidate could take years if ever to get to know the community police personnel and make relationships whether the town departments this will be even how to do in our innovation as there is limited space in areas for the community to engage with the new chief the trend to hire police officers from within is happening for a reason these towns realize the ease of transitioning with an eternal candidate and stability within a police department is important searching outside would negatively impact the morale of the in tight apartment the candidates and undermine their relationship you'll need to have a productive healthy police department the outside  chosen would have to be substantially better than the internal belmont candidates the melbourne candidates have been to the f b i national academy which is only offered to less than one percent of police office nationwide in addition they have over twenty years of leadership experience and all mine this is an easy decision to at least interview the internal candidates before an outside search is conducted in other offices want to know that internal candidates will be highly considered this decision affects every officer because of possible future promotions and how the selectmen perceive our current leaders save the thousands of dollars invested in a search and invest that money in a project that the town could truly benefit from we have a great police tom suggestion of the superintendent and or his designee i would like to give him that flexibility and i'll miss carden said that she spoke to him but i still would like to be able to give him that flexibility so we can do that and we do i'm certainly not here so he's pretty belmont prides itself on education where community has a lot of highly added educated individuals that live in our community that seek professional development are the chief guidance we have the opportunity to attend  five i wasn't planning on speaking but i really have to echo what officer benedetti debt bennett daddy and and ben just sat i i don't understand why you would have to spend any dish no money for any additional because we've got so much display anyways but looking at the talent pool that exists in the belmont police department i  really don't think you can find better not to mention they know people i think it's very important that chief mclaughlin has been very accessible to all of us and i think having someone local who we are already know is going they are what do you see here she sees another communities and if he says you're not going to do any better than we know for sure and if he says you know i've got someone who's a superstar you got to talk to we can make that the screening committee not us the screening committe internal that ing it might be less than if we initiate a broader issue i think would such an important position and it's you know i know it's money that we need to spend but i think it's important money the it's important position we should spend it was something like fifteen thousand last time it was or even if you want  creating a screening committee including mark polow superintendent john failing or designee representative from the belmont schools possibly a principal to citizens of belmont for which then we will have an application process that you said process would include initial review of internal candidates you conjunction with input from the consultant in the screen committee in the screening committee and this phase two nd step would be to the extent that should i should note the next item which is discussion and vote for change a liquor license spice corner l c is not going forward this evening that is off the agenda i don't know if anybody is here for that but we are not taking that up tonight which puts us still way behind schedule nevertheless we're  on all of the towns fields and parks we have received several donations so work is ready to begin in the spring for to start putting on the fields money yes i'd love to we have received donations and hopefully you'll see my face more as more donations come in very very grateful to be a great read thank you so the watertown savings bank charitable foundation the belmont boosters club belmont youth baseball the brandon graham foundation the friends of belmont sport and hopefully i'll get this name right a memorial donation from the family of thomas the iraq as excellent so that's the seven hundred fifty dollars he's donated that this is a donation to our recreation department belmont sport program which is our special needs program and special olympics program so the murphy family in the bay state federal back in two thousand and fifteen there was a foundation project review commission report that was passed and recommending legislation to modify and enhance the budget chapter seventy funding for schools and they discovered a number of areas that they needed the findings but that three out of the group have a specific impact on belmont special education health insurance and so back in two thousand and sixteen the school committee  to put our members did a resolution supporting this commission's recommendations that there was legislation during that period that fell through or didn't get put forward and so there's now new legislation and a new hearing that's going to be held this friday to review a number of acts that are proposed and so the school committee at the recommendation of the bell and education association this fall and put forward a new resolution completely agree with you know even though we continue to get increases in chapter seventy eight that it isn't nearly at the level that the but the foundation budget review commission had recommended based on the recent cause as you outlined here so i don't know that th represented rogers both have been discussed with them a number of times support you know moving closer to what the commission had recommended and so our resolution is a very general resolution because of the number of different pieces of application in the amount of seven hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars for the complete restoration of the exterior of the existing historic police station so that work was done and reviewed by a member of the c harrington who is also historic preservation specialist and she and i reviewed the documents recently and then no the few questions that we had we resolved with the architect the current estimate is impact the addition that's right that's for the interior of the building and the addition of the building at some point for the rest of the storage facade of the existing this is only for the historic restoration of the the sodgers and some under somewhat committee just to be clear the exterior of the police station was never part of the original plan presented to town meeting it was always a vision that we would seek sepia find in that portion of the project and i think it's an appropriate use of those funds thank you  we're not voting on these to make as the article will be voting on favorable or unfavorable of the articles that warrant is out but we're just going through the analysis of them in discussion tonight allowing for public comment thank you for your sake if you think you all the town hall complex slate roof steve january to advance i'm hoping for your support today the request is for one hundred thousand dollars to repair the slate roofs and the secondary damage that's been caused by the leaking roofs for instance in front of the h r department here there's a five foot square section of ceiling that's actually been removed because it was sagging structurally unstable beyond that we found some scatterings of mold which is problematic you'll see some pictures of that in the file the big challenge with this project frankly is we'll need a very significant crane on site to lift some equipment off the roof we have flat sections of roof two places and those flex section are rubber membrane roofs and they're obviously they're leaking by virtue of the stains secondary to the repair of the slate roof in the rubber boots will also paint the secondary damage so that means that for example in the auditorium the entire auditorium ceiling will be painted in freshened up nicely it is a program color absence of all the buildings in this complex yes it is the seven i think is allocated this year total project what amount we have within the well how much do we have to expend you know to do i know we're all there i'm just curious as to how much yet i don't know exactly two point seven we're cleaned and the restoration also includes a power device for winding it written routinely which is now it's done manually and to do that work we need to improve the ladder in the tower it's all internal but the it got dust and dirt from in there and that you're going to be cleaning it up and sealing cleaning is the ceiling it's just that doesn't occur again one point they came up was and we had i don't know whether you just heard some point we could vote on this you vote on this but there was there was some discussion george's he sound that to be the case but i mean is it is a slim chance that we could be sued well the question was that this is not a religious purpose and there was a case regarding stained glass windows where the court has said you could not use e p a money for that because that was religious but this is a clock that the town there's some litigation risk just because there's an awful lot of interest and you know making a law on this topic so it's hard to quantify what that risk is  the action case which we also were involved in defending there were there were two concerns about that that prompted the s j c to remain on that two of the lower court one was that it as the chair just mentioned that involved the restoration of stained glass windows which had it explicitly religious am an injury and the other was evidence that that that sort of the purpose was to support the operations of the church by by taking on expenses that the church was struggling to to other the funding is still the funding yeah the funding is still the funny we need to move forward this one would just be on me tell me it's ok this would be for the design funds not the construction firms i mean i certainly i won't be a member the board but i strongly support this moving forward it's you know had a family emergency so i had to go visit my daughter out of the country i'm sure you're all sad that you didn't go with me but at any rate it was i'm glad i went this project as you might like peter peter quinn the architect i got a lot of help from them with the design and peter recommended  a place in new hampshire so and and mr market suggested that we had a little more to the request so the request went from fifty to ninety and recognizing what you said chairman dash if we don't have to use all of it we won't but we will be purchasing a structure rather than it being stick  good so that should make it a lot simpler i do have a question like i thought i heard mike smith say that they've already chosen who you know they a company that he has worked with in the past to give him basically as built in it would be like a preview and benson once i think it was the name of the company and that is basically boring slates to build time hooker it's prefab so probably i i i can't even i would say a month to build it and then all the prep work that we have to do with the boring if you get appropriation of tommy middle of may committee who we are tiny but mighty there's five of us and we are looking for seven hundred thousand dollars to take away the equipment that's there right now much of it is broken and replace that we would look at so the town field playground is beach and we really street sort of cornered in there and right now we are not using the full space that's available so when we met with the recreation department in the d p w they suggested taking a holistic approach to just view what we had available to us and the water field design group suggested that we take out the courts that was partially because the recreation department and jay took a look at that and said well these are really old if we are going to do this let's do it one time let correctly and let's invest the time and money now so we also learned that the coast the courts are oriented in correctly they should be oriented north south they're currently oriented east west so we would be able to remove them reorient them put them back the pickle ball and basketball courts as they are soon be changing them we would just be moving them and then using the extra space that right now on the beach street side is completely unused and really not usable the way that it's such a situated now and put some equipment in there so we would do dollars to twelve dollars and then an older slash exercise park or area which blake who runs the park or program for the rec department has been communication with us as well as really excited about the possibility i think th you so in the beginning for the st year we use the consulting fund money that is in that total project to have the project moved forward to get this is the final design documents been documents they review the beds is construction  it's like a super nuts type package or spill in that consulting part out of that so we can still have progress with this project and funding what happened for the twenty one year  appropriate to ask for in terms of private fund raising you know some these projects do have private fund raising others do not with the right amount and i think one of the things that we will be taking up as a committee in the sort of coming months is trying to figure out if we can standardize those processes so it's a bit fund raising stops right i mean what you procreate money than you so what you've been appropriated and the likelihood of getting additional fundraising at that point try to dress up is that correct i mean sure so if you've got the appropriation from time meaning vegetation open space twenty five thousand four hundred dollars this is also coming from ameritrade or are a conservation agent and this is similar but not the same thing is quite right so this is our rock meadow our seventy acres of conservation land that's why this is actually our st open fairly open space project see the other one was more of a recreation it was under recreation falls under an open space but it's all this when the is play put is recreation this one's open i think for the blacks wal mart we we had a program that from the u s d a the state and about ten or fifteen years ago and so we did do some full years i think policy with the town in terms of how they pushed out of the great to know what it is and further concern using life estate which is now been designated as a carcinogen in many countries and in the east in california would move move on this i would like to note i know there's been a we've been talking about this god for like nine months or since last summer i know at least we had the st of the large public meetings i want to thank everyone as participated in this process i think we have many many public we had many many people both very crowded in town hall and extremely crowded in here and over the beach street center and with one hundred people over there it's been the community turnout has been the envy of a lot of our communities around us who don't get that kind  of response from the public who care about things i'm glad the belmont does the process how we got to where we are we started with we went out we had a visioning session into in the auditorium where we had a big board and glenn wrote ideas from people we end up with seventeen ideas opposed closure use for the incinerator site we then created a matrix so of different kind of factors so we could objectively analyze those seventeen up based on who made the request or who made they had the idea but how they all work relative to each other we cut that down in half using the matrix we then did some more research into the remaining ones we cut that down to five where we stand today and this was all done through the use of the matrix and from doing some studies some of them were a little more difficult to discern the the details on like they died in a robot digester is a very technical thing that we had to get a consultant and there was some like a bike in skate park didn't require so much or open space field didn't require quite so much research but now we have to decide because we do have a deadline and mr clean's is dated from puny development about them having to start designing the cap in may and we need to figure out the post closure use st we had become versation back when was zero in february with department of state department capital asset management maintenance where sensually i think at this point in my painting they've taken two of those five is actually out of our hands where they said that we could not we cannot generate revenue from the site and that we could not even do it with a public private partnership and that pretty much put the kybosh on the skating rink in the end robot digester they we have while we could go back legally to the legislature and get our neighboring legislation redone a we don't really have time because of the may deadline they talked about and also the state didn't give us the land what the state did is they say they have praised it they sold us the land for the appraised value and then they credited us the cost of remediating all the contamination on it so effectively we paid zero for it but that was appraised value restricted to municipal use only with no revenue generation and they said that if we wanted to go back and change the legislation and make it revenue generating then they would want to reappraise it and we could end up owing the money because the appraised value would then go up and could be above the cost of the remediation of the because if you can make that an office building or something it becomes a way more valuable property if you take off the municipal use restriction so i wasn't really i'm not thinking oh at least for me not terribly interested in going back to the state i see they may not approve the change in certain strangely challenging risky to do that because i think that's dead set it became that one of the reasons they sold it to us rather than keeping it was because it wasn't going to be used for anything profit making it was going to be used for something profit making the state what it kept it not giving it to us in the st place so they were going to give it to us to make a fortune because that was something that they would have done and so we have left then our it would be three choices after all this process open space like skate park and up belmont light solar a solar farm battery storage and associated sort of uses i  my thoughts on it and we can you know have a discussion about i mean i think the open space piece i mean we're kind of land poor in the town we have a lot of open space and we really don't have a lot of land for some of these other things that we could use and that this isn't the greatest open space contaminated and it's on a weird typography in the d p w whatever we do is going to continue to utilize it so with d p w trucks and you know decaying leaves for another store or jump there or something greatest place to spend bucolic afternoon so i wasn't i think it would be almost a kind of not making a decision for open space the bike skate park well a great idea and if you've seen our meetings in the last year we can barely clean maintain and police the parks we have we've had to  search the couch cushions for change to pick up the trash at joey's park i mean that's where we are right now so it's too well it's a great idea to build and maintain bathrooms and have police go up to it was a pretty remote site  clean graffiti maintained at moet replace light bulbs and such it's a good idea i just there's is simply no money for that as point on going you could maybe build it i don't know a c p a money or something but we just can't just can't we can't maintain that right now the last part of it is the solar and battery storage which by the process of elimination you probably see where i'm going with this the the solar and battery storage i thought for me was the best it has a very low neighborhood impact we heard from the neighbors very clearly that they didn't want one which was i think the bike skate park would be an issue for that it meets our climate action plan goals it's less of a disturbance to the natural state in the soil because you're not building a building you just they put them on there with some ballast and those at best specially the energy storage the batteries are basically cargo shipping containers that you just placed there you could remove them at the technology changes but what lights talked about doing on public broadband they need servers like a server farm for that there's a location you could maybe use that  that's why i said belmont light is sort of uses because i don't want to tie it down to one technology that might change be easy to swap pieces in and out i know that chris roy the belmont late show manager was here he was talking about how we would really to make it a viable solar array he would need to have a two megawatt and then he would need the whole parcels i know a lot of the bike skate park people said you could put bike skate park and solar around it the christian said really he would need the whole thing i'm not the d p w piece but the rest of it pretty much the whole thing to make this viable and it would seem that if we did it i would be in favor of doing a vote for the old and serious site post closure used to be a solar array battery storage and other belmont light since i've been thinking about this in two thousand and ten i love the idea of a solar farm always wondered you know as i visit my son in middlebury college i would see solar farms on my way up to vermont so i love that idea and i supported wholeheartedly and if we can make that work that's great i think the storage unit idea as well as a wonderful idea so that's what you support i support that as well for you not enough for the battery storage for the public that what that does is it allows you at night when the power is cheaper to buy than during the day that could buy get power at night stored in the batteries and then discharge it and use it during the day and thereby not you know you'd be buying the energy at a cheaper time and it is furthers our you know our the action that we're taking you know mr like department you know through a lot of your leadership on those issues and also the energy committee we just heard from chris what earlier today that furthers that cause if you will by having a solar farm there in the storage unit so i'm fully  mean i'm in agreement i think you did nice job walking through the process of elimination i had from the beginning thought there's been some very natural upside to the community associated with p v i think when chris talked to us about the energy storage and that was potentially even more intriguing and made the combination of a nice powerful combination i think it has the benefit of being i think you use the word passive i think it's a good word mark it fits nicely in that area that does have a fair bit of open space and tends not to disrupt that it also has a close proximity to a number of neighbors and i think would hopefully be relatively low impact while having explicit benefits for the community both in terms of climate action plan goals and also in terms of the potential  they realized that we actually had a municipal light plant and then they said we didn't realize you're the municipal light plant that's different so because belmont belmont like cannot do this is a public private partnership with an outside firm belmont light would have to do it as a town entity in order for this  the again we're not doing this tomorrow this is one of those things where you know the we have to do the cap and design the cap and build the cap and this kid is going to be yours to whatever you use we end up choosing it's going to be a while before the use gets actually put on the ground so there carefully place p v or storage or where it sits in that maybe remains somewhat open minded of one particular piece that is owned by the town was much restrictions i'd love to just make sure we're being thoughtful about that and is there something great up the shipping containers and take them out if you decided to so change the use there's also i think the cap would be less intensive and hopefully cheaper if you were going if you were to build if you weren't putting it sinking a foundation of a building through the cap of puncturing the cap or rather just putting these items on top of the engine we need to hear from our worker can i was going to open this up to a lot of people but yes glen i also understand that there are seven there were seventeen ideas so there are sixteen constituencies that probably will not be pleased with the decision that was not their choice however we can't do everything and i think i hope at least if you don't like the outcome at least respected the process i think that we of community development just to elaborate on tom's comment through the capping process we have the ability to regrade risk up that site i mean there's a lot of soil a lot of piles up there through the cap and process will have the ability to regr that site and so now you know one sui lock down exactly what uses we're looking at on each possible and we can begin to look at what it's going to take to regrade the site to accommodate those uses  yeah i think you know if you want to add to what we're talking about about the solar no i don't think so you know just the comment about the cost of the cap the estimate has always been a baseline cost factoring in a very simple cap the costs above and beyond that simple cap to accommodate buildings or other uses was never really part of that estimate and so you know we find ourselves now with a use like this really back at that baseline estimate of s just wanted to ask you the question so you identify yourself juliet jenkins precinct three hundred and ten many member when you're in rock med and you go over the bridge and you're in met state land you actually walk back and can see the incinerator site so i know we're giving sort of a broad idea of what it might be but basically with the amount light we have any idea how tall something might be like an energy storage structure we haven't designed anything however they we did look at done samples of the  out to bed and purchase particular items this is just time of the use the implementation of the use obviously that's a whole different discussion because it's bordering this rather pristine areas that's why i was wondering how that will be factored in i think those are things that we should factor in in the design so i think the ability to regrade the site will give you some latitude to address some of those those visual concerns for uses of rock metal i think we can be clever about that but good point thank you anybody else ok we are done talking about the incinerator say so well thank you mr chair for allowing me to vote on this have been talking about this for nine years i appreciate that i want your attention a motion of the incinerator sipos closure use be for solar array battery storage and other belmont light uses as well as  w so moved sag and all those in favor all right we're now going to be going into executive session on two items do we have to do them both at once or do we have to go in come out go in me i'm not going to commit for th value is a little bit hard to find basically it's less than six thousand dollars that the state gives us if we follow the procedure well just get it done early that at the library like now they're the worst well they don't let you down through the neighborhood you're not there all these signs you're supposed to drive to the neighborhood some problems really even the pension i find that oh you were saying that the way we level the piles right actually matters and when we kept it yeah you going to go to the schools school had one child had one now we just have everything one so working you convince me that it was better for me to stay even to go  france we fixed everything i'm asking for overtime pay i'm exhausted student but nevertheless i don't have a resume i mean our our appointment rules do say that we approach the chair of the committee however we did approach the chair of the committee he's just not here i was like so i was going to enter mt for you're right the vast majority of them are i don't really care that's the why you're leaving that's why you don't care i just spoke to her tonight she was terrific but i think that sort of along side of a pointy people were talking about the size of the committee partly because maybe i was being too conscientious and i was concerned about quorum we've had some attendance issues with our committee and we're three show up if you're lucky as well so i was working really hard to get seven to show up and we had a couple of meeting one for corba fifty you see this is what i don't know i thought it had to be more than fifty percent guarantee we can designate as number we're lucky and we work really hard we have about half of them because we have performing hard and eleven half of our twelve we're performing artists so they five a good number you know you have to work really hard i mean obviously work hard but you shouldn't be prevented from doing the work that you your interest we do have lots of information that you  all this stuff exactly what can we do to facilitate you know money better attended money we don't have any forget about it you know it no no no i was told to say that some towns we said this when we came in the summer some towns are actually offering to assist and survey that was disseminated to all belmont businesses the committee received over one hundred and twenty responses the committee is currently scheduling meetings of town department heads to ask questions on how to streamline some procedures a final report was recommendation should be before the also up above at the very top of that page it said that and b j prince cress concerns in a written letter about the safety of the induced crossing of the railway tracks of brighton straight think what it should have said was a written letter about the safety of the south side crossing of the railway tracks a bright street and a project proposed in cambridge could provide path access there were three new pieces of information this says that it was in bt a concern doesn't have to go through the underpass but the i think we had the future the future there because i don't think that was true so right so that the future contract would mirror