e so the order of presentation tonight will be in reverse order well and in order of project size descending order of project size so the one million dollars item comes  hope but we i'd like to start actually with a short introduction by market valley if she would like to explain what the general process really for the benefit of new members and for the television audience what the community preservation act annually in the last few years that's from our surcharge on our property taxes and then we get a partial match from the state and it's run about two hundred thousand dollars last year to meet in ninety two years ago last this past fall we got two hundred  year that we've had the situation where the not quite near the pool ok that's right ok so are we i mean i guess do you guys have guidelines of how much you're willing to spend it down not so much ok i mean why not all of it unless we want to you know must we have a future that we want to hold for hold funds for so you guys when you look through all of these projects and you recommend  are you recommend i guess i'm trying to figure out whether you're recommending that yes they are worthy projects and leave it to town meeting to decide or are you looking at all of the god and correct me if i'm wrong that is a question that's come up on a community preservation committee of discussions this day and we don't actually know what's in the pipeline and it would be helpful for us to get some guidance and i think that's something we've been expressing to tell you that i think it's tricky because a lot of these projects are issued by private citizens so we're going to have no way of knowing when a good idea is going to come up but the think patrice girvan is working on this is trying to come up with a list of town projects that are eligible for these fines and i think that would be very hopeful for the very question the chair asking but it's not something that we as members committee  address but until it's something i don't want to create a little more specific we're not sponsoring the project so we're kind of waiting for someone to own it or bring it to us key facts that the sponsor thinks the committee should consider then they'll be a couple of minutes for questions and then we move on to the next i'm sorry for the shortness of time but this is the st year i think we have so many projects so it i necessary to reconvene at a later date we will but i hope very much that we can take care of that the sponsors end of it tonight if we have follow up questions we can submit the playwriting answer any further questions that way and with that by starting in read in the sending size order the st project is the community path so called one b which is the design of the forward as we did last year with phase one a week in the past we got the design funding through went up to last year fatah meeting this is the the regular cycle application as we said we were going to do back in the fall town meeting we would come back in the spring town meeting for the design to go from bright street to park street bridge i'm sure you've been following the whole where does it go which side of the tracks back and forth and this is easier than the phase two so what do you want things to when you deface to it this is actually easier so this is the the we vote and seventeen at this like going to have a run from belmont center on the bomb on center side of the bridge on the north side to the underpass snake under the underpass and then go on the south side behind the high school out to brighton street and connect with the paths in cambridge that ends  brighton st we voted that two thousand and seventeen some new facts came to light which i will get into the details over the last year we then revisited that decision and we decided to to one to keep the pap route the way we voted in two thousand and seventeen so nothing voted the path in two thousand and seventeen that we this was the route unless something came up and then we could change it so that is always in play we did vote last month though or last week or so it would go so fast that the that that this we're keeping the route the same but we're also taking a sixty day look at two factors on the south side which could force it to go back to the north side one of which is the school committee won't let it go behind the high school because they've never formally voted on it although they've expressed you know positive things about it they actually have haven't form out from the building that would have to either come down entirely or you'd have to chop up both ends and make it a tunnel to allow the path to go on the south side and then the question of that is can that be acquired through and has meant or something with the pure code owners so we've given ourselves sixty day to run those down because if if the answer is no we can't use pure code and or no we can't use the school committee land in the south side becomes very very difficult and probably the north side becomes the easier one of that point so you know it's quite possible these will work themselves out and these are being worked on diligently at the moment and we set sixty days that we would have an answer to this prior to town meeting so we will get the design funds of the design funds you could do design funds for the southern route it turns out through design that has to go in the north you can do them on the design it for the north and turns out that you find something that has to go in the south until you start doing the work honestly we we can't go any further than we are other than running down the school in the pure kopi so but the route of still the road  you're only talking about this one part of it from basically the under past alexander after brighton street is of any issue the rest of it to clark streets not for this purpose and again this is the c p a money leveraging larger money from the  transportation funds through the state to build it we're not keen to build it so it's basically a one dollar one million dollar payment that we're going to make it's going to you know expand tenfold for the construction funds is going to leverage which is one of the beauties of the c p a when we were talking about adopting it was that you could use this bit of money to leverage much larger money and as with the underpass construction cost that we're not paying for either case but we have to design it we would also i should note if we have to do any takings the town has to pay for the taking that's not part of twenty which is actually into fiscal year twenty one you need to have a design consult the non board to do that you have to have the funding lined up but the but that's the outside date and they the actual cost of the construction is even way down the road how much of the one million dollars do you think is actually going to be spent in fiscal year twenty as opposed to work all over and actually be funded in twenty to fiscal year twenty one or beyond and the other question is how much of the one million would actually need because we've actually apply for grants to offset some of the design funding they're printing up to three hundred thousand dollars so maybe this is one of the reasons why we came in the fall town meeting and words were trying to front load this is not just about getting the state money to build it is about getting the grant money to offset some of the c v a money for the design piece that's why we've been so aggressive on the timeline so that applications then we're waiting to hear it's a competitive process so you never know but if we get it it may end up be and i think it's particularly important if we're cumbering every last penny in the it you know that we think we're going to have in the kitty at the end of this upcoming fiscal year if we're not going to spend half of what we approve until the following year when we get another call it a one million and five between our taxes in the state it's less urgent that never less of an issue than if we're really going to spend all of that money in fiscal year twenty so would be helpful to have the sign and because that seems like speaking for myself now the highest value part right now and because it would be an issue  if we designed if we undertook the design of everything to like street bridge and found the one million dollars was not sufficient for that so that's not the view of the committee that's just the view of me but the since the the grant comes in which could be as much as three hundred thousand dollars i could provide a lot of questions to do everything without really worrying about it but i think we do have to be mindful of the one million dollars l spent in the best possible way and we have any sense of the timing on there on the ground know the documentation didn't say when they get back to you up to three hundred thousand dollars per applicant so we could get fifty thousand dollars could get zero we could get one hundred thousand but the i don't think the decision is terribly far off i believe little projects and they're going to all be applying and then the group will be making decisions all the indications we've heard have been of this is as roy said high priority for the t department transportation and from the people who are making a decision we've been getting good feelings like once an application come to us you know it's like so  of we're getting very good feelings but yeah if we if if they say if you know friends we got the letter from the d o t saying they prefer the north side we come in with the south side they go hey we told you northside no they could they may not we'll see what they mean by high priority how high the high priority is but there's no guarantees in this but if we don't take the leap of faith we definitely know one thing will happen there will be no path at all just all right any other questions about community  ok thank you project number two is police station for seven hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred and seventy five that's just a small for me because significant interior renovations on both d p w and the police station are going out to bid this spring in the course of doing that work is the building committee decided that the only sensible course would be to try to take care of the police station building you know as comprehensive a way as possible and let it be prepared then for the next fifty years so the of work on the outside ranging from cleaning them repairing the brick facade to replacing the windows replacing wood trim replacing slates on the roof and fixing leaks and doing everything  to restore the exterior of the building to a very good condition it's been suffering for many years and this is really the time to do it because the short answer is that it didn't make sense to do a lot of work on the inside only to have a deficient outside that could potentially compromise the inside so this is the reason for the request and to store it in the in stuart bucket it's in the historic bucket in the the historic district commission is very enthusiastic  if the project is not utilized the full amount some amount of it would be would flow back to the c p c at the end but it's an it's a question i think primarily because when you work we were very impressed by the approach that he's taken to proactively identifying what different meaning there has been and to come up with a plan that we don't get into this situation again so your praises and we are trying to come jack just a quick question on timing timeline i know that it says we're going out to bid for what the what the project in march and then get in town approval in april are we lining up the a bit of this project with the interior work is that the reason for the timing and i guess these bills subsequent is i presume that there's no penalty or whatever just in assembling bits we're not taking any financial risk however small the percentage is of the probability town meeting will say no we just want to make sure we don't have any financial exposure on this project before we go let me know the name of the projects were not there makes sense given the project as a whole the construction itself probably won't start until late summer the initial phase is actually going to be to empty out the building and the police will relocate which will take some time so the there won't be a spade in the ground probably until and of august early september but then if town meeting does not approve this project which i think would be most unwise decision it just won't be done in the won't be part of the work from here i walked over from the vicinity it's at beach and we're really streets that town playgrounds themselves are dated back to one thousand nine hundred and five to ninety seven when they were updated if you walk by now you will see a big orange barrel on top of one of the piece of equipment because it has come off and it's just a raw spring which is not ideal so we're hoping to get ahead of additional disrepair by replacing that when we talked to the d p w they had suggested in the recreation department they suggested that let's take a look at holistically at the courts as well and if we can rehab the courts at the same time that would allow us to not revisit you with additional requests later in that discussion we realize that the courts are actually miss oriented they should be oriented i think it would get this right north south of their current currently oriented east west so if we're able to tear those up rotate them put them back that actually gives us a significantly larger space for the playground it's a very small space right now with a lot of unused space and really unusable the way that it's laid out so we're looking for a total of seven hundred and thirty seven dollars we would be responsible for thirty seven thousand dollars of that and relooking to you to approve the seven hundred thousand dollars as you mentioned it's in two phases the st to be a sixty thousand dollars construction home but the the red the shows sort of the across and with and this little gray patch is the current playground area so it's really tiny and that was what we were talking about last year just that really tiny space when we were going through this process jay had recommended mark out of the d p that you had recommended that we not just ask for the specific playground area but take a look and see if we can expand to that in order to expand that we need a full site design which we hadn't really budgeted for in the two hundred thousand dollars we were given twenty five thousand dollars last year to do that site design which is roughly what happened here and i have more technical designs that i don't fully understand but you can see that they did all of the surveying of the land and what not enough money so that two hundred originally was for that very small footprint of the existing playground and the seven hundred dollars now is not only the playground but the dead space and also the courts which you probably know cement a sixpence just briefly summarize worse than the school work the structure absolutely so we would do we would take out the courts st and then put six year old and in the summer he was still five and the best thing he could do is climb up to the top of the saucers which are eight or ten feet high it is terrifying but that is the exciting thing that he could do as a five year old so we are really looking to get something that's safer for the older children and then accommodating to the park or kids that are at the beach street center coming over some of the older individuals who are at the beach center to give them some space to have some outside equipment so that would all be included regard to these improvements because we want to make sure that we aren't over building or doing the right thing sure so the courts are here pickle ball courts they're the only pick up all courts in town and there are tournaments that are held on these courts i am newly appointed as a recreation commission street with c p c fighting in the last four or five years so there are no tennis courts that we're looking to redo here it's a new style of court a different style of court anyway the pickle ball that hasn't been touched since the seventy's or eighty's so they are definitely into repair i don't know how many court remaining to take a look at but that might be some of those line of sight things that you guys were asking about earlier to see what else is possibly on the docket to get ahead of that think it's important to know that the apartments do support the project are behind it no question coming on the just the flexibility i presume that the it's the courts and the pain being in the reorientation that's really driving  the big cost i don't profess to be an expert on pickable i understand it's a recent fad and that it's often played on tennis courts are we use their flexibility if pickle ball turns out to be a five year fad and nobody plays it in two thousand and twenty two are we locking ourselves into a specific recreation expense and recreation used or is there flexibility for other uses of that way that it has been i will say that one of the concerns in my neighborhood is that we don't have backyards many of us i mean we all have driveways we live in but when you can't park on the streets we have driveways and some of us have paved backyards but there's no place for children try to bike so we're not looking to put a path through this that you could ride a bike on but right now the the courts that are there are used for basketball in pick a ball and there is a wall there that we are keeping so those of you concerned are interested in that wall we will keep it but not have it be a total site barrier but that flat space will allow us to teach our children how to ride bikes to go rollerblading to use their scooters not on the main streets that are frankly terrifying around here especially on beach and to palo in waverly where they're very very busy in cars go very quickly so in terms of whether this can be repurposed for tennis at a later date i'm not sure but i would like to think yes but for the more near term we are certainly excited that we would have a flat safe space for other  came to learn that codes have changed a lot a lot since then and what we have is probably not compliant anymore it is definitely not compliant it's worth knowing that we need to we need to deal with this so this this update will certainly bring it to current compliance codes it will allow for equipment that multiple types of people are able to use which right now we are not serving the needs of the community  water here there's no water underneath so there's no need to even touch the fields in the way that the site is designed for d p w and the construction companies will be able to get in and out through the access points that sort of the peninsula so they won't even need to nothing should be destruction on the become in the state or if it wasn't done at that time i don't know it pre dates rushed i've had drawn work done on the roof you know i've had people up there with eighty foot lefts to really  right there's been water infiltration in the brecon now so what's happened is the plaster is crystallized and you can see that it's actually flaking off there are at least two cracks in the ceiling in that room to have  under the real which you're familiar with there are a very significant ball just in that stone wall at least two studies have been done on it as i recall it needs to be fixed feet of the wall excuse me and then there's another blow up under the stairway when that was built there wasn't a retaining wall behind it so the stone walk if you will  property care committee at the st church in drama this is marian weskit she's the president of our parish board the project is the repair of the clock in the tower the church you need more there's more going around there's a one page handout just keep them going there but there's a picture of the clock that you want to repair in the tower and it shows the drawings on the right of the photograph shows the levels that are inside the tower and that's what makes it a little complicated there is a there's a floor that the attic is in the towers a big open space but it has there's a floor at the attic level there's a floor church members or just people that knew about clocks in the town the repairs now have gotten a little more complicated we can't just do it with volunteers we're going to have to to do to do to repair the clock it has to be basically disassembled and brought to a shop cleaned and right back in and the clock contractors who we've spoken to have said that they can't use the ladder that's in the  and we've always used it but in this repair it's a little more complicated and we can't take the chance of turning a contractor loose well in fact they won't do it so part of this project is to replace the latter with something more robust and if it's shown sort of as a sketch form basically it involves more like a ship to ship slathers with a platform in the middle ships letters that get you up to the belt level and that's what needs to be replaced the cost of the project is sixty six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars  sorry is there an opinion it does not violate the separation of church and state yes it is yeah we went through that when they thinking we sent it out to town council about that very question about because the question was whether st of all do we own the clock or not because it's the they call the town clock in fact it's a town clock it's not the town clock for the purpose and with the question is do we need to own it to do the project or can we do it if the church owns it and we don't even have to get to that question and it came out that the town councils opinion which i think is pretty good when i agree with them is that we we can because it's not a religious symbol there was a case that was fairly recently where it was a money was rejected for church for staying glass window restoration but the feeling was the stained glass was church religious related and that the clock is a clock it's not religious related i mean town meeting used to meet in the unitarian church and a lot of the original town selectman were members of the church and back in the day the separation between the two was almost nil and so it didn't seem and people didn't have watches and all that so it seemed like a community benefit to put a clock there a town meeting would meet there and everyone would know what time to show up i suppose so it was a it was one of those things that it was always intended to civic thing out of church thing it just happened to be in the so we the feeling was that since it's not for religious purpose that that would be fine in fact town councils opinion was that us saying that the town owns the clock is actually worse in that regard because then how do we own part of a church and then what have do we have easements how do we get in there what's the liability it became a whole thorny mass because if you go  dollars whatever it was when the selectmen voted to pay for the clock it's like one sketchy sentence that doesn't really explain in detail what's going on here and the fact that the town has been paying someone to wind it i guess town council i thought a pretty good you know eries like it's like writing in somebody's car paying for the gas doesn't mean you know in the car you know sort of thing so but we don't have to get to the question of ownership we found we felt that this was something that was defensible because it's not a religious  the town does not own this clock so this clock is owned by the church and i don't believe that the church itself is making any contribution to this object where what we're concerned that we be consistent in terms of asking groups to fundraise or not so we don't have an answer it's something that we want to put on it and engender for a future meeting for us to discuss  yeah i'm just wondering you mentioned it's a contractor and the women's club i assume did their own contracting of the work but the playgrounds are going through the town  w and such and out to bid is the reason that we don't need to do that because it's not a town asset i'm just i'm curious about you know when is it that the work can be done by private contractor even if it's public funds versus when is it that the town has to manage it and take it out on so it's not something we're still in the preliminary it does raise questions of the that the product the total project value is sixty six thousand dollars but the repair of the clock per se is only fourteen thousand dollars it seems like the rest is carpentry to build this new landing system on the inside and some electrical work so i was also like a clarification on c p a eligibility for construction of a staircase which is please understand my question is just so i can better understand the scope of c p a eligibility so i understand that the clock is also going to be motorized just wound by hand and th right that's all eligible for your money on the base but you're not restoring or you're not preserving an existing clock you're kind of adding to it so what's the thought process rest i was just to say there doesn't seem to be any other ancillary benefit to the church of the latter quite so it's not by it's only being built for the clock right so you're not you have no other use for the latter that you're benefiting from aside from that so that maybe yes that might be a rationale right i missed the comment perhaps that adam me i just want to be clear i have a question but my question goes away if we know that the clock is not owned by the town is everybody agreed to that because i've read material and i thought i read historic material that specifically stated the clock is owned by the thames a lot of apocryphal stories we have found about this and many other things in town that don't shine light on it actually have no paperwork to back them up as we've thought it would wind wrote about the water department issues using the use of woodland road a lot of people think things are there and then when you go to look there's nothing actually there and the fact that you know dick bits wrote a book in the s says it's there to make it true necessarily but as far as at least right actual documentation i should say that we we have not to start determine whether or not the it's probably for the best to just leave it as a follow up and just st off just as a matter of disclosure because i don't think it impacts my questions but i am a member of st church i'm not a governing board or anything like that but it seems to me if the church and here's were the question that was depends if the church owns the clock and they opt not to maintain their the way they say they are going to shame on them and the the clock is at risk perhaps of having the same thing happen in the next twenty years that happened last twenty years that dust gets into the mechanism and it freezes up and sees as if the town owns the clock then it seems to me the churches commitment to maintain it becomes more an important part of this project and i don't know i mean like lots of non profits maintaining the town's clock is not high on the list of the church's mission and so when budget when push comes to shove on the budget and the tab of the churches you know what it is either half a minister or maintaining the clock  think if it's the town's caulked to me i think there is more of a vested interest in that commitment to maintain then if it's in the church's clock and i don't know how we resolved it running around one hundred and twenty but it was restored in the ninety's and now it's because of late and thus it doesn't work anymore so the last for you change was twenty years right mike mike mike explained to me before the part of this work will be to seal up the tower a we have the same question of this that we have like there was some question nationally whether jay was on board with this project he seemed to be just part of what got us more comfortable with it we were concerned it would be an orphan structure  so felt that the right department  ok i'm going to do them individually short if that's ok ok for the record my name's mary trudeau and i'm the agent of the belmont conservation commission i work in town hall couple days a week and i work both in wetlands regulation and in management duties for the conservation commission this year we have two projects on the c p a docket and while they seem similar and have similar titles they're actually very different projects with very different intentions the st project that i wanted to talk to about the sea thing was a plan that we've titled the preservation restoration of vegetation clay pit pond in belmont massachusetts you're probably aware that in two thousand and fourteen we came before the c p a got funding to create a master plan for an intergenerational walking path that would go all the way around clay pit pond and as a result of that master planning we were given a plan for not only the path itself but for maybe ten dollars to twelve dollars separate individual park projects that would eventually enhanced or create a much larger and more engaging park system one of the projects that was the result of this study was a plan to create  and views again of the water body from concord ave that one of the criticisms that we had and comments during the development of our master plan is people felt that their lost sight literally of the pond that it was no longer visible that it was very difficult to access the water we had remembered fishing there as a child who don't want you to get close to it because of poison ivy and vines and trees growing up in a thicket bike configuration so what we have proposed for this project is a plan to restore and enhance the natural vegetation that should be a good thing around the water body in new england and do that by controlling for non native invasive plants species that one of the biggest problems we have at it clip it pond is the way that the bittersweet has grown up both strangling the existing can't be trees and also providing a meadow in the past doing invasive plants species control and we had him go out and evaluate the edge of the pond to see what it would take to allow for control vegetation improving both the health of the existing canopy material that's out there but also clearing the understory and restoring some of the views that we would like to recreate and to that end chris gave us a proposal that was for a multi year plan and it was for a cost of twenty thousand dollars as our path project has proceeded we realized how important this work is that we were out setting the locations for the benches that are part of the path project and we realize that many of the benches were set looking at the thicket you know which is not really very gaging so that when we did set the benches this year we looked for areas that had extensive stands of invasive and non native vegetation particularly better sweet bittersweet because we knew that we would be hiring someone to come in cut it out of thin air and then create a view that the bench could connect to through to the waterway two thousand and twenty one and it typically when you have a multi year plan you do the bulk of your work in the st year the nd in the rd years are treatment years that you come back currently we do have informal programs treated with an herbicide to damaging killed root system and then eventually they come back and they rip the vines off of the canopy once they're dried and dead and they pull it out from the ground it's very labor intensive but that's really the only way to get rid of a stand because i don't know if this is a question for you or maybe you and others related to the walking paths so i know that the high school boys and girls cross country running teams were very disappointed that they could have no home meets this year because of the construction of the walking path so i guess i'm wondering about whether they're going to be able to have home meets this year with the walking path and whether this project would extend that because that's it's discouraging for them not to have any home needs because obviously kids it's harder for kids from school the watchman families and so on and so forth that should be completed in june of this year and that will restore the ability of the cross country team to use that course we actually had offered them the use of brock meadow for a home course because belmont hill uses it the harvard running club uses it and the western greenway sponsors race but i'm not sure that they were able to take advantage of that but this work is very  us in terms of people being out on the property doing it is probably two or three they were out there for a period of time with hand equipment clippers and they  another of the phased projects that in our master plan that we have plans to restore the roof i pin arboretum which is plantings that occur mostly outside of the pond area but we do have  for restoring more native trees to the pond area again we would be doing this with vista clearing and views and access to the waterfront in mind but i do believe there will be did they change the soil chemistry to be more favorable for their own growth so taking them out and then perhaps lining the area would create a more favorable environment to for replanting native materials  hopefully a more native type vegetation and then perhaps will create spans of twenty to thirty feet were really it's the trees in the over story create the opening and that the shrub layer has been called particularly in areas where it's either bitter sweet vines or both or neither of which is particularly desirable so i picture more like windows and openings all the way around the park rather than clearing of the edge take the bittersweet clump treat it and remove it in terms of replanting yes it very well may be that we look for public input that's currently managed by the violent conservation commission it's about seventy acres in size thirty five dollars acres of it consists of grassland it's a very significant parcel ecologically because it is one of the largest grassland parcels in the urban boston area that it has been maintained as a meadow since pre contact that when settlers arrived here in sixteen hundreds they noted that it had been maintained by native  americans burned and kept as a grassland and it's been in that condition for the past four hundred years the property is currently listed on the national historic register as part of the mclean hospital designation and we use it generally for passive recreation wildlife habitat we have a large community garden program there and we have other sort of low intensity uses one of the issues that has become problematic in recent years  is that we have experienced an intense growth of black swallow war which is a non native in noxious weed approximately fifteen years ago we got into an agreement with the u s d a through their wildlife habitat improvement program and did a very large scale control plan for non native invasive plants species and at that time black swallower was a very small player in the meadow that we were basically controlling for buckthorn bittersweet  we had a little bit of japanese knotweed and we had a grant this trees that we took care of in that larger programming aspect but now we have this growth of flux wallwork and it's problematic for several reasons one it disrupts the grassland character because it's not a grass that it's if you go out there you'll see dark spots across the meadow and that's actually this small tiny plant and it has a chemistry that's very similar to milk wheat which is a problem for monarch butterflies that monitor butterflies apparently cannot tell the difference between milk we have blocks wall wart and they lay their eggs on the blacks wall wart and then when they hatch they have no food supply and they don't reproduce successfully this is a problem throughout new england but rock meadow historically had had a really good crop of milkweed and this black swallow wart has been slowly to try and control that you basically try and annoy it that you know we have the opportunity to hand apply a fully or herbicide repeated moeen to knock it back is it is another technique you never want to go to seed as these pods that have seized the just float and go everywhere so the more often they cut it back the less likely it is to go to seed and to reduce the seed bank in the m that's that's one of the big goals that we have in this in this project the other part of the project is again a repeat of the work that was done fifteen years ago that we have blacks wall wart that has come in in areas where we have difficulty mowing we do an annual mowing every year that the town sponsors and that mowen is designed to keep the area as a grassland but in places where we have large rock outcrops like rock that up we and around the old foundations we tend to grow stands a buckthorn that need to be cut back and we're just at a point in time where we need to start addressing that again go after it knock it down and hopefully that will bias another decade of just routine maintenance before we have  that request people to give us before the work that there are very few people who do this work well chris politan politan ecological is one of those providers so i would hope that he would bid and get our work our committee routine business we have i believe a set of minutes from last fall but so much time has passed since we last met i would suggest like a reasonable i mean i would say it's reasonable but the that the only available schedule to do with this and in keeping with past practice the rest of march will be reserved for subcommittees to chase after the respective department heads have to meetings and then meet as necessary to start planning their chapters i don't recall the exact date and i'm just check my calendar for a nd in terms of actually producing chapters hold on just one second  so my best estimate right now is that the drafts of subcommittee chapters what we do on april th which is not ideal because it's during school vacation week of course th the report itself needs to be filed with the town clerk on may th which is barely a week later the edge of the ed committee sub report sorry the ed sub committee report typically comes in close to the end because that report is so involved that they just need the time to do it so they would be a scramble between april th and may th for the subcommittee to finish its report or the other subcommittees to final that finalize their reports in the meantime the chair will work on the executive summary the whole document that has to be assembled as a package and we would vote it potentially on may th and as a caucus before town meeting to pay it town meeting actually goes on to may th and then the whole report has to be filed on may th which i think is the and i will i attended one of the meetings of the working group on the report format a couple of weeks ago i want to double check with paul where they came out but i we had been discussing this meeting potentially consolidating some of the tables that are now spread across individual chapters and actually making one kind of summary table that goes up from because i believe it would be possible to produce that relatively easily and it would take some of the burden off that we'd like to figure out if there's a way to make those to streamline the production of those tables so maybe don't end up becoming a problem of production where each section has the tables to assist in getting this report done by the next write otherwise any other questions about our activities for the next couple of weeks course in rated twice and we've never been rated twice aaa and that puts us in extremely small company so i was going to say give a round of applause to floyd but then he left but i mean he and his group and it's not just him his whole team but he let it and obviously them when they become when they're sent around because they do they praise us for our great sound fiscal management and they like our pension and policies which was good to hear but they also have some cautionary things going forward to keep an eye out not like nothing we don't already know but it's important that they think that those things could impact the bond rating in the future if we don't stay you know attentive which of course we yeah floyd wanted to go and do the nd ratings we're going out for the bonding for the high school and he wanted to make sure that we had the you know aaa bond rating that he said it was due to just to the magnitude of the offering that you know he felt he could get better b if there were if it came from both i should note standard and poor's is the rating agency for belmont light and they have a separate bond rating and all separate things so the towns use moody's and belmont lights used standard and poor's for whatever reason so it's good to it's good to get corroborated that the two of them agreed which was you know we hadn't gone to standard and poor's for the town before and everyone was a little nervous you know if you go and ask what are we going to get back so it was well it's a lot of money for the high school so yeah i mean the savings on the on the bonding for the high school are going to be tremendous because of this and they indicated i think standard pores even says that that they would keep this aaa rating going forward for a few years provided we kept doing what we're doing so i mean i think the indications we're not just good for now that the language sort of talked about being good for the future unless things drastically change which they're not going to but they also talked about things you know the things we talked about at the meeting last time we spoke when we have the joint meeting about the budget and the using up of the override funds and if we needed another override and if the town populace didn't vote for it that that wouldn't additionally impact our bond rating so that is that certainly throws down the gauntlet not that that's a surprise but it's you know if we go out for an override and it fails and we lose our bond rating that  things to think about already talked about the path you may have seen that hollywood's coming to belmont of they don't like me saying that but the cause is paramount television and they're and they're scouting group is local and they hate that we're not saying that and they will not say who's starring in it but it's so painfully obvious but they won't use the name but it's you know a male actor from this area who's got is name known for playing super hero i think you could  probably sort that one out for yourself but so but they were so the incinerators site you may have seen that we've had the there's been a lot of good reporting on these in the local press but the incinerator site we're going to be making the vote in the final post closure use march th the department of castle capital asset management maintenance came back and said that we cannot do anything that would cause any profit and that would be no public private partnership up there so that basically puts the kybosh on the on the rink or the digester up there which leaves us as a practical matter with open space bike skate park and light solar have you do it st but we'll be doing our bit of march th if you're interested march th we're continuing in our meetings with department heads if you are you as a subcommittee are interviewing department heads and you want to come see us interview those department heads or watch on t v or go on by media that organ on demand watch what we do and might you might find our questions may be different from your questions you might glean some information that you or questions you haven't thought about or things you want to ask more on so we met with some about half the department heads already so you can look at that meeting online right now and then the rest we're going to do march th light is working on a strategic plan they did i also got a grant to encourage the pump usage expand heat pump usage to help reduce greenhouse gases so they get that small to five thousand dollars grant that they got to help publicize that program financial task force two is hard work you commission that we restore disks up and running and doing great and seen you in a while i think the energy committee is has that roadmap i don't know if you saw the explanation of it temporarily relocating to the water department location which is going to be they're going to be in trailers there they're not going to have the sirens they're not going to be prisoners they've arranged with other towns to handle arrestees it's really going to be for parking of cars offices that sort of thing the nine hundred and eleven is going to stay the current police station is that's where all the infrastructure is they're going to put a trailer out in front and run the wires to it because it's too complicated to move the nine hundred and eleven and they're going to be using the town hall auditorium for a live storage of records during the process records they need to get things that they don't need to get they can just put in some storage off site but records where they actually actively need to access them they're going to be using the town hall auditorium for that so that will be out of commission for other uses during that time i had a question about the activities of the financial taskforce or maybe this is for jeff you know i had a i stated last fall i was concerned that the c i don't know when i don't i assume he can paint whenever he wants to paint what hit the ceiling the roofing making the roof whether tight is one thing he could paint i guess at his leisure after that but i don't know if they can paint while the records are in there i don't know if we're going to have records in the entire room remember one of the ideas was to move the police station lock stock and barrel into town hall and that just doesn't work for friday reasons but they are going to utilize that so that was going to be the plan was to have a town hall out of trying out a commission anyway whether they were going to actually use a police station or use or for have if you've taken the tour they got a lot of stuff they should probably have gotten rid of a long time a cost so they're working and the other updates yes