watch and listen to the talking news every day at twelve noon and six pm on channel ninety six comcast six finity and channel thirty verizon fi o's it could also be heard mondays and tuesdays at four thirty pm and wednesday at twelve thirty pm on channel nine extended e and channel twenty nine files listen any time on the b m c podcast network on sound cloud and i tunes just search for the belmont media podcast network now on to the talking news thaddeus frost house owner seeks local historic district by joanna k s of alephs spring town meeting will be voting on making the fattiest frost house at two ninety one brighton st belmont a local historic district it was built in one thousand twenty seven and is one of the few remaining examples of federal period architecture in belmont that survives virtually unchanged the living area is two thousand seven hundred twelve square feet and the lot is twelve thousand four hundred eighty six square feet according to the massachusetts historical commission inventory sheet the home was owned by three members of the frost framley who were prominent citizens of what a town going to an end belmont that see for aust was born in watertown the son of amos frost chiles turner home of belmont hill trust he sold the house to richard and jesse rabble in the land which was approximately sixteen acres according to the local historic district pull seven athena mcinnes purchased the home in one thousand nine hundred sixty five with her husband george mcinnis corresponding secretary of the belmont historic society approach the belmont historic district commission asking them to establish the home as a new historic district to protect it from being torn down making it a local historic district will provide more protection than the demolition delayed by law which only delays demolition according to lauren meyer cochairman of the belmont historical district commission a local historic historic district provides a design review process when any exterior changes a proposed that a visible from a public way and could also prevent demolition she said this would be the first single property historic district in belmont according to spencer gober a staff plan of a belmont single property districts have been used extensively throughout some of old and towns such as wellesley and a permitted under massachusetts general laws chapter forty c macinnis has lived in belmont since she was five and raised her family in belmont her late husband also grew up in belmont she said they fell in love with the homes because they both loved country antiques their realtor told them that he is used to find celery they moved into the home when she was pregnant with their second daughter and had to be on bedrest for several months mcginnis said she had the privilege of meeting him to be friending ernest frost of the grandson of that he is frost because he knocked on her door one day saying he wanted to see where he was born she learned a lot of both the homes history through  belmont day school students in grades five through eighth participated in the student walkout on march fifteenth two on of the seventeen victims of the school shooting in parkland florida and to write letters to legislators for stricter gun control and companies urging them to cut taxes with the national rifle association i didn't want more lives to be lost just because of faulty gun laws kids our age are getting killed every day and congress is doing nothing to stop it so we decided to take action said seventh grader killing chen who helped organize the event with fellow students alex taylor grade eight julian ten month grade seven silence while the names of the victims were read these people along with others were victims of our legislators and leaders refusing to pass gun control legislation by holding walkouts like this  along with others around the united states hoped to stop shootings at schools shows and everywhere said taylor sixth grade humanities teacher dean spencer acted as advisor to the students who  event they designed the program they've been in touch with organizers around the country and wanted to craft something that really gave people at our school the opportunity to speak out and speak in a way that they felt comfortable doing so he said following the moment of silence and reading of the names students who participated wrote letters thanking companies for cutting ties with the n and to companies who have not cut ties urging them to do so as well as legislators at the state and national levels to urge them to take the kind of action they're looking for to help them feel safe headmaster br largely said he was very proud of the four students who took the initiative for the student movement this place is about student leadership and to see for seventh and eighth graders take the reins the way they did and to execute what may look simple bows actually a pretty complicated involved process in light of snow day on the actual lockout day he said now over to max thank you clar for things to know from the selectively to my joint a case of alice one school resource officer for the chantrey at their march twelfth meeting the members of belmont board of selectmen announced they will be investigating funding for the installation school resource officer at the chinnery middle school there are currently one thousand four hundred twenty eight students at the middle school and one thousand three hundred seven students at the mile high school which has a school resource officer to curbing and sidewalk policy glenn clancy director of community development recommended a new policy for curbing and sidewalks he said a significant dent has been made to the backlog of pending road repairs since two thousand and seven when the decision was made to remove curbing from the pavement management program he now believes there is adequate funding to meet the backlog of roads that need to be repaired and said that there will be an additional three hundred thousand dollars available over the next five years annually that can be used towards curbing and sidewalk repairs school and highly traveled local walking routes and routes around destination point such as playgrounds houses of worship municipal and school buildings will take priority the selectmen voted in favor of the new policy three health insurance rates belmont's health insurance consultants sushil of cook and company explained why health insurance rates for town employees have risen eleven percent she said medical and pharmacy costs have risen and nine percent which is a good portion of the eleven percent increase however she said there were large claims that also drove the increase including some that were more than one hundred twenty five thousand dollars per person per year over a two year period these claims are seventy four percent of the increase which totaled one million dollars it's a small number of claims that count for those very dollars she said two category categories of utilization also had a large increase which were a twenty percent increase for ancillary services like the labs and x rays and a sixty five percent increase for outpatient pharmacy costs high cost hospitals such as brigham and women's message uses general and mount auburn also drove the cost up she said she will take a look at plan design changes and the tears of different benefits to see if it can help decrease the cost for a permanent home for the belmont food pantry the belmont food pantry now in its twenty fifth years serving more than one hundred fifty belmont residents is in need in need every week needs a new solavei recently conducted a survey with one hundred fifty eight people to find out how much they knew about the belmont food pantry she reported the results to the selectmen at the march twelfth meeting which determined eighty seven percent of the rez respondents did not know the number of families who access the pantry has increased by five hundred percent since it was founded in one thousand nine hundred two the selectmen asked the town administrator on march twelfth to help find short term and long term solutions for a location for the belmont food pantry patrice garvin will explore possibilities including belmont high school they need a location that is nonresidential because sometimes clients line up from five thirty in the morning which c impact the neighborhood they would also like enough space for refrigerators so they can offer meat to clients and other perishable healthy food options over you bob thank you max students compete in soap box derby generous soap box derby team led by coach leon dyer had a lot of fun on its first ever competition the indoor rally race was set up in the parking garage of the cambridge side galleria mall the weekend of macho third the indoor rally race in cambridge consisted of a morning and afternoon race on saturday and sunday the team competed in the morning race on march fourth the soap box derby as a youth soapbox car racing program which has been run in the united states since the one nine hundred thirty four will championship finals  derby downs in akron ohio cars competing in this and related events without power relying completely upon gravity to move there are three types of soap box derby cuz stock after seeing that event the group of students were sold and very interested in building a few cuz over the past few months the group of four students james  who have been participating a soap box derby racing for roughly four years now seared as our racing advisor he was first in his stock division at the cambridge race ryan was great at answering questions about the cars and complete competitions the team fed will in its first ever event in cambridge on march fourth in got zell came in eighth taking over the spot of amun car on seventh grader who had to leave early james by making him came in fifth and leave mitchell came in second with liam's last race being a difference of just zero point three seconds the team is planning to compete in one to two additional events before the championship race in arlington on june second moving forward we're looking to add four to six additional cars to the fleet at a trailer giving a total of eight to ten students the opportunity to build learn race and compete in soap box derby and however clare thank you bob twenty five years of making a difference more than four hundred supporters of the foundation for belmont education twenty fifth anniversary fundraiser walked into a silver wonderland at the belmont hill school on march seventeenth superintendent john failand proposed a toast to the f b i honor of their twenty fifth anniversary recognizing the three point six million dollars in donations eleven presidents one hundred fifty board members countless volunteers and supporters in support for more than two thousand staff and countless students over the past twenty five years as part of the celebration the five founding board members of the foundation for institution that is still support of other everyone who has a part in educating our children said mahela she recalls developing the f b i mission statement and by law the original board studied the spelling bee and twenty five years ago it was for adults not young students she was the board secretary in recalls how faxing saved time when she did the minutes and fa percy for his review and he would fax them back look how far we've come she said a big percentage of the event proceeds comes from the live auction hot items this year were the cocktail party for twenty at the soon to open new wellington restaurant in belmont center another hot item was tickets to hamilton in boston and overnight accommodations at the boston harbor hotel and a tour of the old state house the hottest silent auction item this year was assigned to boston celtics carry irvin jersey in a wine tasting with cheese pairing for twenty guests at the spirited two thousand and nineteen budgets for the school in town totaling one hundred sixteen million dollars on march first the town budget is increasing by three point four percent and the school budget is increasing by seven point six percent seventy eight percent of the town's revenue sources go to the schools and twenty two percent of the rest of the town departments the salaries for fiscal two thousand and nineteen are increasing by one point three million at his presentation failon said the increasing of the romans as well as the increasing cost of health insurance and out of district costs are the main reasons the fiscal two thousand one thousand proposed budget for the schools is increasing by one point nine million dollars more than fiscal two thousand eight hundred budget in rome and has increased the probe by approximately one hundred students each year for the past five years and is expected to increase by an estimated one hundred students through fiscal two thousand and twenty according to fail as of october two thousand and seventeen there were four thousand five hundred thirty one students in rolled in belmont public schools grade k through twelve and he expects the number in october two thousand and nineteen to be four thousand seven hundred forty one rising and romans has caused class sizes to increase the average fifth grade classes twenty seven students the fiscal two thousand one thousand budget includes the addition of two teachers for fifth grade to cut the class size down to twenty four said fa this increasing in roman hasn't resulted in the need for modular classrooms at the high school six classrooms generally middle school six classrooms and now the burbank elementary school for classrooms it is also required additional professional and nonprofessional staff an additional bus increase in support for services for mandated costs special education and endless language learners and the purchase of texts materials supplies technology equipment and furniture health insurance premiums are increasing by eleven percent for fiscal two thousand and nineteen for existing and new staff being added said failon special education tuitions transportation and contracted services budgeted are also rising seven percent he said there are currently one hundred seven students out of district of either collaborative or private schools belmont's per pupil spending is thirteen thousand three hundred fifty nine dollars which is less than the state average of fifteen thousand five hundred eleven dollars per pupil according to failon belmont has consistently spent less per pupil than the state average and the average of cohort is cohort districts he said ranking twenty fourth twenty fifth or twenty sixth in per pupil spending from fiscal two thousand and eleven to fiscal two thousand and sixteen the total proposed fiscal two thousand one hundred school budget of fifty seven million includes the addition of nine positions including two full time fifth grade teachers at the cherry middle school a third just assistant principal at the cherry two elementary teachers at birth the burbank and additional teachers for jim art music and special education for the students in the modular classrooms at the burbank seventy eight percent of the town's revenue sources go to the schools and twenty two percent to the rest of the town departments garrett carbon said she projects a balanced automobiles has created some of the prettiest performance cars in history during his twenty five year career yet the design chief behind the fifth generation dodge viper and the eight hundred forty zero s pollard dodge challenger s r t damon says looks on everything in automotive automotive design cars today have more safety features and ambitious goals for fuel economy speed and more designers must find creative ways to wrap the frame of the vehicle in something beautiful while giving engineers optimal performance here are some more factors design as must consider consider who will buy it different buy has have different needs for instance trunk space probably isn't that important to the driver of a two hundred fifty thousand dollars sports car designers and marketers identify who is likely to buy the car early in the design process how safe is it there are reasons why most cars and trucks have similar shapes glass windows and four wheels aaa xc dr john paul said most have to do with complying with federal safety regulations and passing train crash tests for vehicles also give drivers more control than two wheels without the asile of caring for six or more dooley trucks excluded it is an aerodynamic little tweaks in the shape of a vehicle can have a huge impact on its speed handling in fuel economy engineers will awful often test the aerodynamics of a new automobile or a scale model that in a wind tunnel modifications can be made based on the results fun fact some automakers used scale models to see what a car would refreshed for spring and celebrated six years in christian square the shop was repainted floors were refinished and new wall fixtures added with all the changes in the neighborhood the business is here really have to shine only catherine then ski says it will be our sixth year in christian square this month we had our best year ever at our belmont location then ski attributes part of her success to the unity of the christian square businesses many which women owned we work together to promote neighborhood events and advocate for collective success i've had several events this year with wes neighbors the toll brothers and non state construction the group advocates for better packing and pedestrian walkway is as well as requesting action on the cumbersome construction detours on common purchases ballroom dance studio fred astaire dance studios of belmont located in cushing square for fifteen years was purchased recently by longtime ballroom dance student biotech executive and belmont resident elizabeth wood who and her husband have lived in belmont for twenty years and have two sons the business is operating in its original location bottom floor below spirited gore made it for forty eight common street for the next couple of months until renovations are completed on the second floor this is my opportunity to make a greater contribution to my community and hopefully enrich the lives of the students and staff with the joys of dancing who said i have a vision to build a beautiful new dance space retain the best teachers and offer more fun classes and activities which will attract dancers from around the area with her longtime student perspective who is highly motivated to elevate the overall quality and experience of the dance lessons provided to that end she is thrilled that fifteen time champion of the blackpool dance festival british open championships rachel heron has joined the team as manager of fads belmont and who will be delivering the highest quality dance training back to you bob along with my colleagues claire and max we thank you for listening to the talking news and hope that you have enjoyed the show we over return next week for another edition of local news happenings around belmont