good evening i call the special town meeting of the town of belmont of nov thirteenth two thousand and seventeen to order thank you please arise for the pledge of allegiance advisory committee and the board of library christie are there any other requests for admission to the floor none of the native dance all right thank you of briefly reviewing the the speech will have all of the votes life enjoyed by our citizens and whereas over one hundred don't want servicemen of our community have died in our nation's wars while serving in the armed forces and of those have been pushed humans to be awarded the greetings so there is currently of veterans memorial clayton pond it was erected in one nine hundred forty s it is in really bad shape there are so many patches to the wall that it's more concrete than stone the plaque is dented beyond repair and it's very overcome it does not at the moment properly honor our servicemen and women we want to restore and enhance the memorial we want to add granite like we are currently raising money probably we got a one hundred thousand dollars matching grant from belmont savings bank and i'm really proud to announce that we are now one hundred thousand dollars we've raised at this moment a hundred and four thousand of course but in terms of the logistics if we get to article six the final article nine forty five will go ahead finish if it's between ten and then fifty i'm going to turn to unanimously now turn to the main report under article one emory moni who is chair of the major capital projects working group and she will summarize all of their fan where we put together the slides for this report is it came apparent once again what a long and unwieldy name this committee has and even the initial second of long and i will be and so as i was complaining one of my daughters said to me you know mom would be a good idea here is why don't you just use in a mode instead of the name or the initials and i said great but i could not find in a mode for buildings that have outlived their  so with that i am pleased to present to you this evening in the work of the major capital projects where i'm going to roll through these early slides quickly because each of you received our report about two and a committee and phyllis marshall and we came together because shortly after the wellington elementary school project was approved in two thousand so it became apparent that we are we were down to so that when we come back in june it's going to be a simple name with a really great acronym so i'll be accepting any suggestions from thank you thank you town's general by laws pertaining to establishing an authorizing revolving phones be dispensed with the same being set forth and for under article two in the warrant for this meeting and having been for this meeting and further that the by a lower review committee may approve none substantial changes to the numbering of this by law in order that it be in compliance with the numbering format of the general by r classrooms at the elementary school and we're going to walk you through some of the details of this work and the need for these extra classrooms the issues that we have in front of us over the last few years behind me there are some highlighted grade levels down the left hand side in the are the school years showing that anything highlighted looks to be a class  ninety the chart below shows the class size and how it's impacted by how big a great could be in terms of process jim gemmell precinct two and certainly a lot of their i will vote in favor of this article so that the work on the modules can start the spring however the full story about how to pay for them and the other media capital needs will not be resolved until the town meeting can sitter's the fiscal year one thousand budget next june as a prelude to the upcoming budget discussions i would like to share my surprise at the school's financial results for the past two years since the overwrite during those two years a school district has received and spent about one hundred million dollars from the town's general funds voted by town meeting of of the one hundred million dollars it received it town town meeting during the past two years to fund balances and credits and these accounts have grown by three million dollars this was possible because the school district spent its journal fund dollars first in some accounts for more than what was budgeted while spending less than the budgeted amounts in its own separate funds is is a three million dollars an appropriate level of reserves it's hard to say because the school committee does not have a published policy on this matter he says the center we don't have a lot of the  financial facts and to encourage the group formally known as major capital projects project and working group and the board of selectmen to engage the school committee in in the months ahead for in fairness to the thirty to fifty to over one hundred people that will come through this building during i mean about ten in the inside we also store all of our d p w highway division of women is all stored inside which is very important most people don't understand that the importance to keeping a clip and stored inside inside storage is very important for women it'll it'll keep the equipment much longer the longer have any of the equipment stored inside is very total chaos this is how you go to run something out of a small room like this it's absolutely crazy i understand you know what this is this is it you know they made the reality of ok i mean the best situation you know whatever they may try we've had a number of people escape from this facility because of the circumstances show again and i talked about it earlier about having certain mandates set by the courts we have issues with evidence we need to protect that we need to hold it and what we did is we move to the long term this morning and that's a very good question the first thing that we will do when we form the committee is get an answer to the elevator question depending on but but at the end of the day each the police department and d p w will be nowhere with respect to getting pregnant buildings even if we vote yes on this motion w i visited actually a couple of times in the last few weeks as well as the police department one thing that you don't see in the video is the washer and dryer that you saw in the men's bathroom the vent does not outside events into the mechanic workshop so when you talk about air quality that certainly is just an example of some of the unacceptable working conditions that you're seeing in the ago peter cast you know had proposed the idea of having a consolidated building he proposed the idea of having access over to pleasant street to have decrease coming through with land and prints and sea streets he was told that that was impossible so as we vote for the temporary solution for the short term fix i would ask people to please keep in mind that there are so many unknowns still in the recommendations that have been made for the long term that i'm a little nervous voting for this before we are able to really have more information about what the long term solutions are i will say i have spoken to all of the residents of woodland street not only do we not support woodlands street becoming a public way we will not support any future proposal for that to happen we also feel it's inappropriate for the police department to be placed at a at the end of a dead end residential street with eight houses my question would be i hope that the committee will come back in june with a solution to the access to pleasant street if they are not able to secure the rights from the n p t i feel that it is behind these measures that have been outlined by the resort eloquently are absolutely necessary today they were necessary yesterday and so those short term solutions need to take place today you saw the two work on video if you were able to take a tour physically of it you got a little bit a flavor for that all for products are equally important as far as i'm concerned and i know this board will continue to support the efforts of the major cup project working group or whatever else we name at the beginning of next year and continue to focus on all the projects that we have charged this group to work on to continue to participate as well so we don't leave anything behind but we also fully understand as a working group and as a board we can't spend we can't we don't have the money today to do all four together so we