ronald sparks who has written the remains of korean veterans corporal ronald sparks is going to arrive at boston logan eleven twenty six on august sixteenth and they're having a procession from the airport by the cambridge city hall in his honor so a lot of people are going so this is you know we have the p o w flag of the school in this was a recovery of  sunglasses to remind you about the nice thing was the belmont stakes cation for two thousand and sixteen it's our project that encourages residents to avoid vacation air travel in order to reduce our footprint for energy use in the month of august so it's underway this month and instead focus on the enjoyment of all the fun activities available right here at home we're hoping this would become an annual summer event and today i presented each of you with your staycation passport so you can better understand the program and so we can get a photo of you signing your name on it and shortly this saturday from noon to two o'clock we have a staycation picnic on the town green by wellington station and we hope residents will join us for the chance to meet their neighbors enjoy a game of frisbee or croquet and learn a little bit about them on history from our don historical society volunteer station master at wellington station will have popsicles in recognition of the town's history with the ice industry and appreciate your support for the program in august and for the picnic on saturday so  maybe more traditional in the other road races that are current town and we've met with the great escape and basically you have a copy of the revised road and the date and it starts at ten a m on o third the same day and we've gone through the requirements of police details and basically this emulates the road route road race route of the brenda grant and back a p c five k and i think it's a route that we're familiar with and to through the paces here please to check and introduce himself before you do that good evening i'm trapped mesure i am a member of the commune for cable television advisory committee and we seek your approval to sebring for an extension of the current agreement we have with arise and for the benefit of the town's subscribers extension for how long when you're going up to one year we're hoping that it will be less than a year we just are cable advisory committee has worked hard to have scheduled meetings and we are beginning we're getting close to yes yes i think we're close but there are some issues that  you have a contract for services that's correct so ok how but you wouldn't have that contract if we didn't give them a license to operate in the top rate this is a license agreement for them to operate cable television this woman allow them to have a contract with you right now if for some reason or other you decide you don't want verizon to continue to provide service in the time that they can continue to provide service so you're interfering with my contractual relationship with fries and they have to they have the which is which takes precedence over well we're extending the current life i understand that one year radically if every couple years right you know they feel free dead they can do whatever they want and the only thing that really controls them is not the town but the state or you can decide to use another provider correct because  you know that if it's to the community they fund our public access television we're looking for a senior discount so we certainly want them to continue to be a license or that the right word might licensee in town but you know we're doing now we want of the report of the town of belmont on the request for amendment to the town of belmont cable television final license allowing an extension of the license to expire on september twenty eighth two thousand and seventeen or such earlier time that ever no a license has been executed unless sooner revoked or terminated execution of the report will follow the consideration of any comments our officers are still going to be required to have a degree ideally we would like them to have a degree in community justice but or i'm sorry criminal justice but if they do not have that degree of have a degree in something else then we're going to ask them to augment that with a public because i understand so i don't want you to think i'm asking the question because i don't understand it for the public this contract will expire on june thirtieth of two thousand and seventeen  is that for the public to understand that this settles the contract through june thirtieth of two thousand and seventeen cars in the new you'll be entering into a new round of negotiations for the next three year contract yes starting probably next month or october will be starting in order that we can hopefully settle for july first of the next contract cycle to avoid our officers and employees having to get retro payments and things like that and that is my goal and then and then for my information would you expect year to do that or is everyone motivated to go ahead and come to the table everybody is motivated i have a schedule in mind and a plan in place you know assuming that there's not any major issues which i'm not anticipating at this point i think they can probably be done within six to twelve months max again ideal i'd like to be done prior to july first that the new contract will start timely and right of work from there but the work still has to be do membership is there can you explain that please my recollection not having the bylaw in front of me is basically it's a prescription for one one to be on the committee needs to have a disability or have a relative i believe for disability so basically that narrows the focus of membership so maybe we can ask the public to yeah i see you've got an i think we're advertising but you know we don't have enough members of this commission it's always been the case since i've been on  a motion to reappoint me and donald and janet mcdonald to the disability access commission so moved all favor ok education scholarship committee there's difficult decision simply because you know we have folks that serve that have a lot of institutional knowledge and some of these committees and they bring a lot of value to it although we have a lot of interest from other folks so we can either expand the size which sometimes  comes unmanageable or decide that you know perhaps you know serving three terms or two terms of three is a not really you can come back after you've taken the term off something to think about because i think we have a lot of interest in committee appointments and a lot of folks that are moving to this town younger individuals you know want to get involved if they want to give them an opportunity to participate so i think we should think about that and perhaps at the end of this process a committee appointments  for committees and and you talk to them and then they you know on the ones where you know there's too many applicants for the seats right that you know it wouldn't hurt to talk to somebody just see if they would you know have that agreed to so you high school students out there with perhaps we have an opening because we're only able to appoint three tonight so if you have an interest please let us know or anyone else will write so they have a motion to reappoint derren vote no sorry propeller road yes you'll see that many of the new trees that have been planted in connection with the project are dying and what they want to test what they're doing unfortunately it must be because of the way the project was set up there are those bags which we put on the trees that you know that our people put in aren't on those trees and what they're doing in cambridge they're asking people if you have a tree in front of your house and it's dying from you know the drought will you water it you know just kind of a public service and so i think you know i think we should ask the public to to think about that a lot of trees you know so that these trees don't you know it's it t so these are now staffed regional groups but media center board of directors one member for three years in jail for n z terms up as a question re appointment no other applications all the airplanes that are coming over this town and indeed we noticed them they were almost every two minutes over our backyard they do tend to fly on sunday nights and it was incredible my mom was there a while i was like oh my god and so when you think about  they're right there and so they're this is the important committee and i know that there's some frustration in terms of dealing with this david as you know understand and we do need to have my we committed some points to get through and temper yeah good to report back i don't think he's getting anywhere unfortunately expanding the church of young people may say well my you know we don't want to bump us we don't want to go when we do that so i think you know if we could add two more people we'd probably get interest from the community ok yeah i agree that can we do that tonight  coordinate from urgency responses to natural disasters rather morneau is there is it important not that you know we don't have a busy agenda but is this something that we should have a report out in terms of some of the work that this committee is doing for the greater community  folks to say that you know we are we we were all over this we had to cover it in this is something that natural disasters and other matters that might occur in town this is our plans so that great to have when you went back from and there are always that meet belmont every year but i think the greater bo ok so moved the second second time favor i don't even know what the means are dave it means i need to probably get going on this is an important board that we should frankly i think all of them still serve a purpose but we don't debate that that are working such as you know it's the idea of you know how it how it works and what rights you know they're going to throw those it's current i'm sorry well the other thing i wanted to suggest is that we consider having a summit meeting with the town's elected officials kind of in connection with you know the sixty six committees the permanent committees just to get an idea of what every there's there's officeholders and you know to have a summit meeting about where we are and where we're thinking about going and you think what could be like a twelve hour meeting but you know just for a consideration i mean we don't have to decide to the moment they're the contractors he's responsible for installing them into ok watering them and then basically there's a year guarantee so basically we should not do anything that would void that guarantee or the water in the building but in this case if we see one dying we the contractor has asked us to have the board approved night paving during the week of august twenty second at night from eight pm to five doing the work at night will minimize traffic again the week of august twenty ninth from eighty five right at the end of this two week period there will be some work to finish up a basing in terms of paving work in the markings this will complete the component of the project and again this will minimize the disruption during the day to have the markings done in the evening in addition to that as as we have done in the past when the board approves night work we will make sure that the contractor imposes restrictions in terms  of no lights in a residential properties or no radios no loud conversations or noise from the employees no i don't necessary i leave equipment on the vehicles explorer not having a loud backup alarm so that reverse nine one one and leave for any of the businesses and nearby residents but we believe this will cause the least disruption in terms of completing a project with regard to the final course paving and the marking so on the pass through road are we going to do  been directed or have believed that that will have a two hour parking at the moment they can if you would like it to but i think that in terms of turnover basically there will be one handicapped spot for  i don't know i don't think we did we should discuss that tonight but i'm just i'm just wondering if it seems kind of a shame in a way if you look at you know yeah you know to paint it white you know i don't see any other way around it there may be another color application that can be to change behavior in terms of how when you park their reservation think about you know creating short term parking i think the intent of having spaces for them to be short term they're going harking space is to do short term errands fifteen minutes thirty minutes or pick up your pizza and to pick don't and the reason i mention the signs is i'm not sure that people will know that they can park there if we don't put us on you see what i think as we develop some more firmer plans about the were correct because the twenty nine how many days for markets they're asking for for it should be lower nights as well so they get a pm to five am the paving is clearly more extensive thursday night august twenty fifth two thousand and sixteen weather permitting and also pavement markings to be applied the week of august twenty ninth two thousand and sixteen up to four it i think it's an important vote i've heard estimates of a thirty percent turnout and i think the public needs to understand that it's a majority decision so if you have a position you should definitely take the time to vote and you vote at your normal precinct right and i think the september twelfth is going to be important because that's where the pros and cons will be discussed the league night and i'm not sure that this is the kind of decision that the board of selectmen i mean i think we should vote but i i'm not sure that people should depend on us to think about the issue and then and then you know vote with us in a sense or against us it's something that you really need to make the decision on your own don't you think i think the board well i think we should discuss that in the data and we've been around it as you know you know years and so i think the to report is right now they are intending to enable to terms with i gather some more information on what alternatives may be available should belmont decide to  withdraw from the district but i just let me let me just add one thing for the public even though the vote is going to be district wide and whether the funding for the minuteman the new minuteman school the larger minuteman school proceeds is going to be based on a majority vote of all district towns on that on that day elements individual position is still very important for belmont right because if belmont doesn't support they the larger school but the rest of the district does then belmont has the opportunity to decide whether it wants to withdraw as a member of the district and in doing so it could potentially no longer be liable on the debt for the larger school the hundred forty four million is it is the gross cost is this is that's what's called and the withdrawal would be a town meeting fault but clearly what belmont residents the voice of belmont residents is going to be very important so i do encourage people to vote certainly the attitude of well you know there are what sixteen other member towns are fifteen other members sixteen right that are voting so so my voice my voice won't make a difference i think that's the wrong attitude because belmont's voice is a community is going to be very important for belmont's future with respect to to the minuteman so i think it's important for people to turn out and to vote i do think it's important for us as a board you know that no one has discussed this issue more than the board of selectmen and certainly mark you've been living this as as our representative and you've met with board of selectmen of other member towns so i think it is important for the board to give voters some guidance and like i said i know warrick committee is working to see what alternatives would exist because for most the the foremost most important objective is to have and provide meaningful vocational education for our students who seek it and if there are going to be no viable alternatives then i think this makes this discussion much more limited whether we support the schools  yes well to follow up on sammy's point not only is it an important vote but we also have this obligation to provide the education then there's a commitment there's a commitment for that but with regard to the  the alternatives there hasn't been a lot of time as roy obscene mentioned in the work committee meeting you know that they probably won't have at their fingertips the same developed alternatives that they would have of you know if they were able to form a committee and so it's going to be kind of a thing where if you decide not to but not to fund the debt and then subsequently kaun meeting because that's a town meeting vote not a not a referendum to decide minuteman is obligated to allow them to continue through the program until they graduate right so you're right but is it then i guess what the exact question is what about an eighth grader who wants to go to minute and i guess they could go t physical withdrawal will begin in three years and any students already in the program can't continue until they graduate so put another way a yes on the referendum were in the district and in that and we're responsible for our share  on the referendum then triggers the town meeting but we have to call special town meeting and need to do that week afterwards and if the answer on that is yes we want to exit the district then what happens is we have three years to figure a lively discussion topic at our last meeting belmont high school building committee did meet on tuesday august second ok which was which was last week and you know we specifically discussed minuteman has approved a school designed for excuse me m s p a has approved a new belmont high school designed for one thousand four hundred seventy five students and i think this concern  particularly in the concern of our chair was is that a school that's going to be big enough to accommodate future growth you know of high school of students within the town  the superintendent and i think the town administrator and assistant town administrator and chair of the belmont high school building committee did subsequently meet with m s p and they got some clarification on the formula which gives a lot of comfort much comfort so apparently there's two components of the formula there's a design enroll meant component and then an educational program component the one thousand four hundred seventy five students only applies to the design in rome and so it's designed for one thousand four hundred seventy five students but then on top of that the program component is well what other programs are you going to for belmont high school and depending on what other programs are offered that will further increase classroom space so for example  music e l al drama you know for example if he's are additional programs that we're going to offer that will enlarge the capacity of the school over and above the one thousand four hundred seventy five classroom isn't it one of the options on the building committee to move the eighth grade and into this facility and would that be considered a program as you just described if we are requesting two other options ok or ok one option would be to consider eight through twelve at the high school so build a larger school that will take if graders from middle school and have them at the  the high school in which case there will you know the high school essentially have two different components eight to nine and then ten to eleven twelve kind of a junior high so that is one option but then a second option  that the administration is the school administration is requesting ok without deciding whether it's a viable option yet or not but they do want it to be on the table is moving seven and a will to the high school because is really where the hot point because the general is where the hot point is and that's where the overcrowding is so i'm not saying that's a viable option but i think what we are trying to do is work with work p to keep as many options available as possible if one of those two configuration options reconfiguration options were to be approved those number of students eighth graders it's just a fable for you just just so that we're clear here is there's several process points that will be followed so where in the feasibility study phase and so all we're  doing now is putting options on the table no decisions are made on options that will be as we move to the next module where we hire a consultant on the decisions or a few years away while they're there several months away and so you're right in so figuration decisions yes speakers then once you decide what your configuration will be then you can start the design process so i just and i think the vice chair did a great job of explaining the conversation that took place last week but just so the folks know that just because options are put on the table doesn't mean that there will not be a process no decisions have been made to superintend in the school committee plan or having a full vetting process of potential alternative some of which may come off the table and then you'll get to a point where you'll narrow your focus so that you will be able then to move forward more effectively efficiently so i just want to be clear that no decisions have been made options are being talked about because that is what you're required to do with the m s p is to give them a listing of options that you want to explore as part of the feasibility for us and i think i mean discussion discussing options is the crisp ensemble thing to do as a community know you're absolutely right i mean it's going to be a much more detailed public process before any decisions are made well i think you should discuss options for any decision solar installations so incredible so i think it makes sense for the energy committee committed some point at a meeting september whatever that might be to talk about that other matters so we match it tonight when you was here so i think that's it right