adopted a one of our biological amended it to include business licenses and certain business licenses issued by the board of selectmen should also have criminal background checks associated with them the one that is under review at the moment happens to be for things that are called second hand order and to be honest we just couldn't get everything together in time to get the applications out to the people in a very reasonable way and make them understand what we were trying to do  we are the license are due to expire april thirtieth and in order to do that mechanically we are a new ing asking that we can renew all seven licenses when i talk about a thousand of them every seven exactly and pretty well known long term small businesses in belmont such that we would be able to put a conditional approval on these licenses with condition that they apply for renewal that they accept  say we knew provisionally rather than sort of the new licenses being very high grades otherwise this their businesses are going to be in limbo after april thirtieth the question that i had there was why was the were do why is the fee going down it doesn't really say in the easy at saying you know what these are very small businesses and to increase them from eighty five dollars to one hundred i was talking small money i understand well but you know for them and some of them have felt that and have been unhappy when we had to increase the last time in nineteen in two thousand and committee prior that you know we should be charging appropriate fees to cover our costs and if it covers our cost i'm fine with it if it doesn't cover our cost then i have a little bit of a problem with that it sounds like it may be covering elin's cost but not covering the police department this year is a burden on the businesses and then we're saying ok fine and all their businesses these are continuing businesses that you know i get a lot of those we're right has gone through all their applications are already entered it's really quite a simple process i don't have a problem of this with the first year  just for everybody's information that we talk about that says you know i'm just mentioning it again ok so now the position on the war of articles ok so let's go to the r usual inspection and a couple of things came up that a lot of restaurants that we have when we apply the rules and regulations to him there were certain sections that weren't big us and not up to date with what is a so but this is specifically with regard to the regulations that are defined for the town in force that doesn't change the policy for how licenses are issued it doesn't really address the  which will be addressed by you later but it's it's it's to make the regulations that are used by the taliban not consistent with state law and make enforcement of those regulations easier for the department and for the businesses so that it's consistent and up front so this is really more of a procedural catch up to the legislation change and changed during the it appears that when these were written that they had in mind a particular restaurant or middle one or two particular restaurants that met the criteria of these rules not what's going on so to permit them to do  if i walked into a you know area where people who are waiting can have alcohol and i don't think they could point to what you're saying that's not allowed or that is allowed under the change it's it's allowed if provided you have  area in the restaurant where i guess you wouldn't be seated you would be standing in having one drink where you just want to spend where you just want to stand sit all day i don't mind standing you have any questions yeah  anything else we need to think about i also want to well i think there are a lot of issues with regard to the licenses which aren't on for the changes tonight but we're going to talk about a lot of other things for me to get me on regulation on the it wants to adopt him or the establish was notified and i was force regulations to what's going on that i know tightening them up is a great thing what you've done here is actually important being at the things there are other things such as making sure the applicants are paid up with the town and you know then clarifying the notice provisions and things like that that we still need to do that i'd like to get to sooner rather than later not to hold up these changes because these are important as well but we thought and then of course the b y o b and transfer ability the tommy will take up an outdoor seating and all that other stuff so these are going to undergo some wholesale changes i don't know if you want to wait till they're all done or greet but we don't want anything in the waiting list the thing is this is important that we get this updated you know because we just want to make sure that everybody is doing what they should be doing not standing in your way no we don't want to have a motion so we w to adopt them and then we'll revisit them out and move to approve the recommended changes to the alcoholic beverages policies rules and regulations in line with the red line version that we were provided in our book i want to go i guess i'm looking to try to get out on the street whatever the best option is that the board would like to proceed so that we don't lose another month or two in this process the more r f p is that we issue on the same subject i didn't i mean there was some section in here about it was it's not about the search company in particular it's more about what criteria we would want them to be and putting the floor yeah for the candidates i mean there are some in section two point three where it says w redlining review findings of the human resources director and search group i mean last time they searched me drill less there's anything in the background check that wouldn't be able to be distributed to anybody beyond me but subject to confidentiality exactly what we can certainly ad her that this was coming through town meaning in that moment it was going to be a twenty five miles an hour and that's pretty slow i'm not sure that's the case yeah i'm not sure about much but if i was pretty slow right look to so i did it only five or it was a first amendment issue and i don't know maybe george can answer that that because i had to do with them the number of signs you're allowed to have on your lawn i'm not sure that we can regulate political signage so i was wondering if you added a line that is not  yes was involved in all of the redraft in fact the original draft didn't address the first amendment issues that it raised in the recent case law at all so we made a number of changes that were intended to make sure that we aren't on the wrong side of those cases i didn't do that my not in a position necessarily to answer questions about the specifics and i can try to get you that information but i can tell you that i mean has reviewed these changes and driven a lot of the changes so i went through it and i was not sure that i saw were the political signs were mentioned one way or the other unless a sort of worked into a definition somewhere just i mean there's a lot of protected speech that's not directly political science so i think part of the problem is that the towns of run into trying to create special categories political signs and regulate them together ways a lot of those  restrictions have been found to be not consistent with the first amendment so it may be purposes so what was what was done you don't know what was done here a lot of the cases on you know i'd be happy to have me a brief you on it if you're interested about this bump this week on late monday and you know i just want  very much up in the air the legislature is considering i think dozens of amendments we really don't know where this is going over the course of the next year and many of our towns have been asking us what should we do  this is a not necessarily particularly impactful but but it's a prudent precaution you can take so you don't get  not about the sons of italy in particular it was a philosophical discussion as i'm sure time meeting will have to whether as to whether we should be using c p a money for private private entities to preserve their archives we recommended favorable action i believe the word was maybe and i'm not archival archiving documents you know in the audience that explained how all of this work no i understand i'm just i'm just saying you know i remember that we had to we just different it's different than then the discussion that took place in the in the war committee that the  effort is a much more serious effort and also i mentioned that if it was you know in the indian tribe for example you know the discussion would it would have been completely different so i think you  i i think it's permitted it's a serious effort and it was passed by the by the by the c p a committee after a long discussion in ironically one person the c p a committee was opposed to it into generational walking path construction site plan for thirty five thousand dollars second they've moved by that we recommend federal action on the p q playground we've had of the station project face two for six hundred fifteen thousand dollars second recommend whether or not the board of selectmen should be expanded from three members i have some very good reasons for it i think you guys would share them said committee shall be appointed by the moderator and shall consist of town meeting member from each precinct and five  residents selected at large and show file a written report of its recommendations in the town clerk's office for distribution to all town meeting members in this by november twentieth two thousand and seventeen which i filed today i changed it from january thirty first i think it was january first and i got a lot of criticism from the i hope committee so tomorrow i'm going to discuss with mike and you know that i have just come in fact this is kind of aggressive as you recall and we conflict that i think that we need more members i also feel it's all things have operated pretty well since eight hundred fifty three well and i also believe that i think it's healthy as much as it's difficult as all three of us understand and know to run  favre ok you know where we were next one is going to do with this pace you throw my question on this one was whether we should weigh in because this is asking it's asking town meeting to recommend what they want to the board it's like when a why would we tell them what to tell us they want us to do seems a little he tells me that you know it's a non binding resolution by town meeting to tell the board of selectmen how to act on pay as you throw so why would we recommend a town meeting but they come back forward the question is whether we should rule on it one way or the other just a it's non binding and b it's a town meeting telling us what they want us to do it's not really for he got to the point is that we're doing this anyway we had a presentation as you know  recommend does just seems a little odd that it does get a little actually green what do you think and i'm not speaking for myself i'm speaking as having been at the meeting where kim slack ok i think their answer to that would be that they believe that revised motion we don't have that in front of us so in order for us to consider this article which i think i favorite and he does he that revised motion yeah i think that i would just suggest that i'm not this is not i'm not indicating whether i'm favorable or not i know i have with i have written in two emails to an man on this topic and one address the story that she told us when she presented it to us originally in the second one had to do with my concerns about specifying anything about the police department and i have a number of issues with the way this one is written i look forward to seeing the motion and the commission just let you know and for the viewing audience that we met with the please buy me a very very productive meeting and that miss me into connecticut account and consideration all of the changes that the police had what it did so really specifically outlines what they do to cheat and i think therefore the police department is and would suggest i would suggest at least by i would be in favor of this article based on those changes i think we need to see them i think we need to send a thought i mean obviously during the campaign this was a question of the week and i answer in the paper i was in favor of it so it's i'm happy to continue attending what happened was on a board we received a letter that said that they're presenting their budget on wednesday and they wanted us to vote by the closure before the train gets there you know it's a very dangerous intersection and pursuing that but you know we don't have to discuss it anymore but i think of something that this board should take care of during the next year the presence of a notary right that we're not getting over this but i'm just going to print my name on these and you guys saw adam first march second but so george we can't get these unless times i sign my name a day do you want to hang on yes and th side even though it's from the commonwealth is that it acknowledges the previous version and also contains some contractual provisions about you know what happens in the event of a claim of a version of the future it's so important to maintain as long as possible the general the billet to use draw down the general stabilization fund for operations specially as we go through the book for the high school at some point i also want to for not lose sight of some of the things that we thought were important  think in the wrong direction first of all i do not think that we should be managing from override override we've talked about this before we should be managing under prop two i asked david in the last meeting expenses go higher than three percent in the reason for that is not talking about high school we're not talking about the capital budget just talking about operating expenses in capsule and if you multiply by three percent like him that's a thirty percent increase in real estate without doing anything else so we can't we're not in the position where we can actually you've just talked about some money and we have to be careful about how we're going to spend whether it's going to be you know an ongoing increase or whether it's going to be a one time deal i also you remember do is to give us a proposal in due caution tell us you know how much it would cost of that grant doesn't come through because i think the three of us have to talk about you know you know there are some things that need to be done like this this situation that we talked about with the police today in the executive session we cannot allow the expenses in my opinion to go over three percent then then we have to look for you  know how things can be allocated do what needs to be done in one good example was something that you would see i mean i did on the remember of the children's library where for fifteen thousand dollars they were able to keep it up after six say understand that it's important you know we have more to do this to understand it's important to live within our means i also know that you know only living we can't live through it but but but if we do keep in a cap on expenditure it does have real impact especially when and you know our growth and that's why we have the financial model as well as you what other sources of revenue we can we can determine or one of the ways we can deliver services because capping at a three percent does have real consequences on a number of things we're going to have the number on the not going to change the world of what we need to do is this board has some real challenges the first thing is that the government the governmental activities are the net revenues exceed the net expenses which is good news that's good news you know we're not we're not running as a deficit the second thing is that all three enterprise  revenues exceed the expenses so that's good news where the bad news is is that the town for whatever reason and i'm not looking back i'm looking forward we need to pay attention to  employee retirement benefits and these these are these responsibilities are really hurting us from an operating standpoint because the way things are set up we have to take ten billion dollars o to in this work is responsible for this lloyd is not responsible for me and mark were responsible for the funding schedule so we proposed twenty thirty got back twenty twenty twenty nine school band we're going to meet all day long they're going to have to take a song to learn learn it all day get in the morning learn all day and do a concert tomorrow night at seven o'clock at the high school ok thank you adam and cushing village update by toll brothers is thursday april twenty seventh sixty m and it will be at the home a building on the third or in the art gallery and then we have the prescription drug take back police department will have a collection point set up at the d p w yard seventeenth street on saturday april twenty ninth from ten a m to two p m older and use the and drugs maybe dropped off for free with no questions asked then we have a recycling event saturday may thirteenth nine to one p m at the town yard thirty seven c street what's the difference between that and seventeen c street is it all down there i think you don't think it's all that complex you can drop off any of the following items textiles rigid plastic i go out as books propane tanks bicycles