here so with that call to order and i do like to move on to a more unfortunate serious topic as many of you know officer robert force for i think thirty four years and was a dispatcher for over fifteen as i recall he was sixty three years of age so he was a young man he touched a lot of people in town anybody who went to his wake or to his service saw an incredibly broad cross section both in terms of age but also every stride of belmont was represented in the in  his supporters that came by it was really quite touching he was a great man i did a lot of service for the town while he was on the police force i know that the police officers really you know feel h loss so if he if we all can just take a moment of silence please to commemorate robert a dolly to thank you thank you very much with that i'd like to open it to questions from town residents of any topics not covered on the agenda i don't see anybody who would have a question so we'll move on  mr administrator first topic is the signing of the annual election warrant for april seventh two thousand and fifteen and with us is the town c by by law and it will take place the first tuesday of april which is april seventh this year and polls will be open from seven in the morning until eight p m the purpose of the warrant is to let border selectman call the election in terms of allowing the inhabitants of the qualified voters to attend and know where the polling places are and what will be on the ballot it's a legal action is required by sectors data which reminds us of it in typically you'll see it for state and federal elections much earlier for the local elections just because of our local bylaws having to do with town meeting and the question that you all have placed on the ballot that's why i'm here today so if you don't mind  i will read the offices that will appear on the ballot and then indicate that there is a question as well and as i said we're talking about tuesday april seven two thousand and fifteen the officers for the following terms will be elected had this  election one moderator for a town meetings for one year one selectman for three years one member of the board of assessors for three years one member of the board of cemetery commissioners for three years one member of the board of health for three years one member of the housing authority for five years two trustees of the public library for three years two members of the school committee for three years one member of the school committee for two years those are all town light offices then we moved to  town meeting which is a representative town meeting form of government in our eight precincts twelve town meeting members from each of the eight precincts one through eight and in addition we also have some partial year terms for people who have resigned  or moved out of town one town meeting member for precinct five for one year one town meeting member for precinct six for two years one time a member for six six for one year for town meeting members for precinct seven for two years and finally one town meeting member for precinct eight for one year and lastly you have called the question which is otherwise known as a proposition two and a half override question and our usual polling places will be open i won't read the question because it's posted on my website it's yeah it's been in the newspapers it's on the ballot anyone who wants to educate themselves certainly should do so and if they have any questions about whether they are registered voters now is the time to inquire  deadline to register to vote is actually this wednesday eighteen of march at eight p m and the town clerk's office will be open from eight in the morning until eight p m to receive or rich stray sions and last voting is underway we started it this morning in office absentee voting anyone who qualifies based on the state laws and descriptions in the form will tell you whether you qualify or not to be mailed ballots to be mailed out and the first group has already gone out so already out in public so i answer any questions well i mean i will i will just say my question to alan was we do have the override question on the ballot yes but nowhere does it say override s a lay person you know you read it and you say always that override and and and that was my question and where is that exclusions specifically reference an exemption to proposition correct and so two and a half and that it's actually fairly common question and i'm actually glad you brought that up again the issue is that the question the exact form of the question that must be approved and it's actually contained within the state laws and the department of revenue is the one that determines what categories and what the actual languages and so you all working through david and through the town council have determined the actual language of this question under forms a b c d e f or g you cannot free country form and i and my question was just to make sure there was no confusion let's someone to take that position correct but only until the next election that's correct and then that person is not considered a candidate for reelection because they really weren't elected so they must that person must go out and get nomination papers and we have a lot of news ahead today it's this year individuals that are  people running on the ballot for thirteen seats and we know that there are at least a couple people who are have expressed interest in running writing campaigns and likewise in precincts five six and seven the same so there are writing campaigns i know there was there was not an inch and it's good to see continued interest and there is a considerable interest the issue is sometimes because we're coming right out of the holidays people aren't fully prepared to make that commitment until they see what their spring or summer is going to bring and so they don't always on the the next order of business is the continuation of the liquor license hearing for surrender l l c doing business as jimmy's food mart to ninety seven belmont street it's an application for a wine and beer retail license please join us hi hello good to see you again last time we were here we got some serious feedback from the board with respect to look and feel that the board  since that three weeks a tremendous amount of progress has been made jimmy's food mart although i submitted it was a food mart selling variety of grocery items they've purchased they're going to repurpose and the business plan has now been changed and in the last three weeks you've seen great strides to that transformation jimmie's food might well now become an international specialty food market it's going to cater to indian foods pakistani foods food from nepal bangladesh in the asian countries we've already established already put  in probably more than one third of the store shelving is now been committed to indian and ethnic foods native to their individual different kinds of rice from india brown rice white rice different kinds of flowers leave flowers various spices conducive to the area covering chili powder hammer and  other ethnic spices specialty goods snack items frozen food section has been revamped it now ongoing has to sing tells me he already has an order a lot has not arrived another fifty to one hundred items in his clearing space this is not just one little tiny corner of a shelf this is a full commitment to this type of an operation they've been in contact with a beggar for indian and ethnic type of breads the shelf life of that obviously you know you have to sort of get it going and a business plan also involves a little they will not make them on the premises but i'll call grab and go although that's not really probably i guess prepared foods prepared salads and ethnic products for a packaged package made off off off premises and brought in and then you know maybe some biscuits you have picture of the of the frozen food items of indian coverings and these are high end items as i have been told you'll see the various types of lentils we know there were so many called that i think they train red beans so they are real and he tells mate and we have very sweet goods we have pickles we have mangoes and fruits because a lot of the spices in the cooking techniques are common and indigenous to those areas and so in addition to that it's going to be truly an international type of a place and we would like to sell indian wines and would like to sell indian beer products as part of that or perhaps an international be a products and international regional wines that would coincide nicely with the type of food products that he's now going to sell prepared to be prepared to tell the board that we will not sell no longer sell cigarettes not sell tobacco products we like to retain a lot of it but please know that there is no intent and you can put it in this restriction but that will not be any and you can buy something today but you won't be able to see the screen you put in your pocket and go someplace else and see if you've won but but you can buy the ticket i don't know who would buy that so it doesn't involve having a screen there with active if there was no screen and not there were no screening but as part of the lottery you're able to sell you know like a powerball or season ticket or something you can buy a keno ticket for you know as many plays and next time you're at some place you check but that's basically what it is you'd like to revamp the signage in the in the place because obviously there's things if cigarettes and tobacco go we want to upscale the signage we want to advertise that this is going to be a truly international  type of a market catering to those type of foods will you still sell the standard convenience store items i mean is this in addition to that or in lieu of that i think it i think some of the standard milk bread and eggs i think is going to be sold but i think a lot of that is being moved out for shelf space for this there's a limited there's a big store and he probably had some more shelf space in there but but that's the commitment that's what we're trying to do with that and the beer and wine sales if you've been to the store would be tucked away in that back in a nice pretty isolated type of an area or a segregated area with a with a gate that they would pull down for protection to keep so they're looking to upscale what they're looking to really going out there they've they've gone to the to the various temples we're just now starting to spread people are now starting to come and i think once it gets a foothold and it's unique we have syrian markets we have lebanese markets we have a greek market but they're to their own particular market so you know the board sort of gave them that may have done them a great favor with with the views of the board and i think that type of an establishment situated on that row with a barbecue place  next door and said is mediterranean down the street and fiorello is down the street really edge of true international feel to some economic development that will reach yeah i asked the question your number one i think it's a much better business plan ok i think you're going to do a lot better with that kind of a expansion of your product so i think that's good for you other than investing in more inventory it's you know to me i think one of the reasons white town meeting authorized to apply for more licenses was that we could use them to help new development intel you know and hence capital investment in town and you know you're an existing use so mike my question is other than expanding your inventory is there going to be any new capital investment capital improvement agreed to give up tobacco moderate and spend three hundred thousand or two hundred thousand to improve the place you know we said ok we'll give the liquor license because it would help clean up the area  ok and then and then i guess i just have what is paid to paper and clean up and cosmetics i don't forsee you know hundreds of thousand eighty dollars for major renovations but i think that is a gauge of the game but it's going to be a clean play think last time you heard that they keep a clean place it's a pleasant place it's a large space so it's less cluttered i think that will give them more opportunity as their inventory and as their products and as the fresh foods expand  has there a creek there and now you know more of a far east asian indian market i think that's great i think it's a great use but as far as compatibility with other uses in the area boy when i drove by over the weekend the learning song just jumped at me the preschool i mean isn't that an m p isn't that incompatible i mean having was directly behind the public school and you grew up in that name yeah you probably my dad with a movie theater next door and the pizza parlor and you know that type of situation and there was opposition from people from the school superintendent the principal some p t a moms and i understand that but this location where it is i remind the board again there are no churches within five hundred feet there were no schools within five hundred feet and a preschool there she school two and three year olds ok their kids but i don't think that they have any more exposure to the beer and wine across that in the international market in the back behind the great then than they get on t and they they don't they're not crossing the street they're going to do their thing and dropped out they get picked up but there's no ice cream also save i would you would have a better ice better argument i would suggest to frank the toys were still there but it's not what's  observe them up and down the street and if i missed a few i apologize but but that's so i'm distinguishing those tools and drawing a distinction there but you know i don't know what the situation is with the learning zone but i've my clients have put in i think they've took what this board said to heart and i think in three weeks they really shown that they're making more than a good attempt they have  five and five and five so they could be in there for the long haul but you gotta give my give him an opportunity to do that there are two licenses left the town expanded the number of licenses and you know everything else gets in my opinion and that's my suggestion so you know keeping in mind the board if they run afoul of it the board has the power they're the ultimate licensing authority but here we have good people with a good use i'm thinking of tech anomic device may not be as pretty as the loading zone but the loading dock but only in the eye of the bold it'll be a basic clean well used store that i think will be different and bring in a welcome addition to the town of belmont and its overall situation with some affordability to it that's the other aspect and i said it before but not everybody me included can consistently drink forty dollars bottles of wine some people can and gotta love them but i can't and i don't and you know the we have a wide demographic and there's a need we gave you a petition with and it was seventy something names on it most of which most of all one of them for from some i'm sure names you reckon so that's what i say and that's our curve and that's our e the question a couple questions i mean these are all sort of still kinda goods and products on the shelves is there any intent to have like at the loading dock you actually have food that they sure of there are baked goods or anything of that nature  appreciate that thank you for trying to let her thank you back in for its interaction again your comment i understand it and i would distinguish that come in the situation because the loading dock again i don't represent them and i'm not denigrating anybody's business but i understand and please remember that floating dock was an all out call license rhea's wines whiskies vodkas spirits that is something different and we're trying to know in a smaller capacity with a business plan looking for something that is an adjunct to what will now become of the intent to be a booming international market which will be able to understand the troika but it's not necessarily a horrible thing i don't think the town is going through apocalypse is not going to come if we allow them to sell some things beer and wine in this situation and sell  him and it's speaking with with his parents they've already made contact with the baker for the breads and the baked goods which can bring in you know fifty loaves until you sort of but that's in the making contacts been made where it's going to go they've been in touch with food purveyors for the salads and prepared goods you mentioned grette i don't think they're going to be cooking anything i don't  they're going to be putting it in and you know it's not just baked goods it's good salads and fresh fruits and things like hummus and indian things that are actually grab and go ok for having their meals but i guess that's the half of the shelves at the time were empty because they were going to shift from the old to the new so he was loading you know product you know these international products on the shelves when i was there so i saw it happening like in real time that this was going on so that was i think it's all a plus i think it's all a good move on your part i think it's a smart business move i think you're going to do better just one thing because it has come up we've been i was alerted to it and then when i looked it up and i and it is about signage i know that you're going to do permanent signage you know regardless what happens here you know if you're doing permanent signage because you're in temporary signage right now but i do need to caution you about the signage buying that signs that are affixed to your glass count toward the square footage allowed in the signage by law so you need to be very careful because just casually somebody mentioned it to me and i looked at it and i think that you know you're going to need to be very careful if it's not compliant you're going to need to remove noncomplian cigarette ads are coming down so you know that takes up a big time she won't be having that and that will be and i think they want to make it look like a clean classy upscale inviting place so given that there are no other questions from my colleagues are there any does anybody from the audience like to speak in support of this license please come to the microphone identify yourself and and please tell us what you'd like to say as a resident of lewis road i'd like to compliment them in at least three ways one the times that are on the do or they honor i believe they open it six in the morning and will stay in close attention except for sunday and they're always there number two businesses in the area and i'm speaking to the area within the bus stops the family has kept the sidewalk incredibly many occasions and i i believe that they shovel tote the mail books which was very nice and so however they want  to use their space i would be an come complete support i think they're listening to all of you this evening meats and some helpful suggestions for them and  but i personally feel that whatever however they construct their business so far has been good evening my name is steven parr nagin i live at forty stuart terrorists and actually occupy the office space adjacent to the food mart i won't reiterate my support that i mention last hearing but i concur with counsel that the store really has taken a transformation in the past three weeks it is replete with international foods that i walked in one day and been there in a while  less being or office did make and they made significant capital improvements to that space in order to open going in there before is a sure pharmacy it is it's completely different than what it is now it's much brighter it's cleaner and new tiles and i know in speaking with family that done you know work on the electrical and the plumbing so i do understand the selectmen to point but from what i've seen they have already put continue to put significant capital improvement into the space thank you thank you very much everybody else and support ok is a large there is a large daycare center in the next block and these youngsters are taken out on walks several times a day parking in this area of town is already extremely limited and this would only add to the congestion there are several liquor stores further down on belmont street magnolia wine store and mackay wine and spirits and spirited gourmet is in cushing square belmont residents don't need to leave the town to purchase b wine additionally it is my understanding that slash convenience store has never been granted this type of license i note that a similar request by capello variety at three eighty six propeller road was denied last year for the same reasons i respectfully ask that this license not be granted sincerely carolan boss kirti n five ninety school st belmont mass thank you mr  he's your banker in support saying that he you're all very reputable and that every dealings with the bank all your dealings with the back have been extremely upfront reputable and speaking to the character of the proponent as well as to their integrity in their business negotiations or dealings so i do want to make sure that that goes in the record as well and i will say once i find it submitted for the record that being said we've we've received in addition to that many calls and comments both for and against this you should know what i know that i've received telephone calls i've received other you know e mails just to me in opposition i've also received you know like this one from mr truly in support so it's been you know  well i'll tell you how i feel ok i like your new business plan i think you've come a long way i think this is going to be much more successful than what you came with three weeks ago ok and you know i'm ethnic myself i'm lebanese i've helped lebanese stores you know and i think this is a great transformation and it will be a great fit in that area what still doesn't feel right to me is lottery sales it's inconsistent you know there's nothing ethnic about lottery you know it it's honestly my feeling is inconsistent with your business plan i think you would do personal this is purely personal i think you would do better if you drop the lottery and focus on the ethnic you know food products i would encourage you to start preparation on site because that attracts another clientele that that you're not getting there you know people like fresh food and if you have that talent you know i think it will help your business plan and to maybe i would encourage you that when you get to the point where you do drop the life of the lottery you know and you expand on this business plan i think you're getting there i think at that point i  would be more open minded on you also serving beer and wine but as this application is currently before us you know given the comments we've got both for and against given you know i personally cannot support the application so that's my that's my take is the pull well i mean i think you can make some good points there i mean is there a consideration to move in the direction that he make but they're going to wait until the us having a for the residents as we shall a well i'm not concerned about that in in by much speech the busy streets are going to have traffic i don't think this is going to increase traffic that's not my that's not my thinking i think you've made progress but moving in the direction that simi know let me let me ask you ok if l c variety came back yes they had some violations they cleaned up their violations and then they put some rice products and chickpeas  and and bread on their shelf they have already and in so doing you know again it's setting a precedent setting a precedent i i i would turn around and i would tell them you wan move transition from being a convenience store we'll support that tobacco and the lottery and we'll talk about substituting it with beer and wine license you know at two ninety seven belmont street for the reasons that we have cited during the course of this hearing but one of those ways ok one the effect the impact it's going to have on traffic in the residential areas less traffic now than there was when there was an ice cream store ok you know what are we going to have some respect here i'm trying to give i am a commotion and you are interrupting me and i'm over the  if you're white and if you want me to itemize reasons you know again ok i don't think that the us is compatible with that neighborhood as it currently stands i think the service i think having a lottery license come is incompatible with our previous decisions and until the traffic advisory committee does take some action on most road i think this does affect traffic in the residential areas you shit with back we'll move on to accepting a letter of resignation from the housing trust i guess one of the members that we recently that we appointed i think about a year ago genson ga lozano submitted a letter of resignation apparently his his business and personal life is just taking too big of a of an next we do have some vacancies that we can fill the shadetree committee ms susan harris has an application for i have heard from the of ms harris welcome to the shadetree committee please please go get sworn in thanks that it should now there's one more day there's one more there is an application from miss carroll trager i hope i'm pronouncing that properly to join division twenty one implementation committee minutes trager was interviewed by to mr duran and spoke to him about it and she and he met with her and says that the entire committee's very happy with her application and would very much like her mistre are so the history with the property is is that it's been a rooming house since after world war one so it was documented back in eighty eighty nine ninety and i went back and read about how sexy the house itself originally was further back on the street was built on the eight hundred fifty s and then when they created that neighborhood they subdivided the twelve acres and they made all the two families and they move this house to the corner so the house as been at the knowledge they went back and researched it and tom good soonest at the time made a ruling that this is nonconforming grandfather views for twenty occupants four in the fertile thirteen or sometimes forty one it's been you know sometimes it was twelve and my mind i and i mistake i was a mistake but i always thought that referred to how many bedrooms or in use not how many occupants because the occupancy load the how many can be there is by the hawkins and the actual occupancy load is actually calculated based on the square footage which is in the code so it's in the health code so the basic health code is that  a rooming house it's eighty thousand square feet for one person in a room and it's an additional sixty square feet for a second person room so this house itself has and you go on how you cut it there's  seventeen or eighteen rooms and then this five rooms that are used as bathrooms right now and which used at it which was for sleeping quarters has been this thirteen room so my i was always or thirteen or fourteen depending on  one bedford has one and each of those are all now owned by non profits because their rental income really only covers like sixty percent of the cost and that's that's the case here to be honest with the us though the rental income covers about sixty percent of the cost because i pay for the i pay for the electricity i pay for the gas the only thing i don't pay for is the phone and you live there as well as for no i love i love in town and  i know that we received a a letter of support for your operation on john magaw run it's the former veterans officer saying that you've helped the town there and carried because they couldn't get into housing or whatever it was so you know it's tough you have a lot of people in there in my last instance i had with the fellow that ended up and the hospital were trying to go through stuff straightened out but you know i think i've every time there's been a request to do things i've done it when i bought the house i think one of the issues they had was the alarm about it's been circulated to the departments and basically and the reason why it's before is because apartments of signed off on the application for a license so basically i was here last time it was a question about the number of claims on the license and believe i went back on and research that when i run to people i tell them it doesn't come with parking i don't know if i can say it enough and i just don't and and so that way if there's ever an issue i can just move on i don't typically like to run with people cars and because of the fact that the customers here i mean the rents are typically i think about five six months so i don't know if you if you know what they're going to get and pushing square but the new development that i wanted it's four thousand a guard at the chancery they all of my property most of these people like i said are minimum wage and the way how hard looks at it you know belmont has said they're supposed to meet the ten percent for a low income housing and that's that it eighty percent of the median household income what this house hits is thirty percent of the median household income meaning that it's actually it's called extremely low median household income of people which means that these people they all made one hundred thousand a year less that might be one guy in there who changes tire polyphony might make a little more but i think everybody else is below that threshold and that's that's pretty much how these other places in medford  and quite frankly we bought it we had young kids and it's like wow we have a seven thousand square foot house in belmont and you know i mean architecturally it's got staircases six feet wide you know big circular staircases through and and then when i get in had some you know it's funny half of me will say oh how you know people that work for a living and the reality is if you're thirty years old and you're living in a rooming house you have other issues there's something going on there and it's funny the only issue of had there in the last two years has been with a younger person ok and i had a i had a victim because he was probably the most your people are there for a year or two years if three years john most of them of their one yeah i mean i've had people there now their benefits i bought it the other the other thing you know i will say is you know i think they've been around for a long time ok i think the best test of whether this works this time and certainly that they've satisfied that test and we haven't had complaints from the neighbors ok or a police complaint or police or any of the such there is a need for this kind of housing i agree so you do fulfill a need it's just too bad we don't get i and i represent restaurant chains and i kind of and but you know what you know obviously i think it's a service i mean for us yeah i mean my wife this is our charity whatever for lack of a better word you know someday we'd like to have the place a little bit cleaned up more but we're doing the best we can working with the health department you know with her coming up with some different ideas of you know what do we do we change around some of the surface areas and you know kind of minutia type stuff like that  but you know it's a battle one more one more thing that mr newman do you have anything i don't have anything to add other than the answer your questions you know obviously would like to license renewed we have to  and i rent them for space we've been there for years one of the things we're not able to do in that location due to size is consign items for many of our local  so when the space of four fifty four common street became available i spoke to nancy carlson right away the landlord signed a leas and leasing it since january one and we're just going to be consigning furniture more than anything else and furnishings home furnishings but because consignment is considered used not new by law in massachusetts we need to have a special permit with all of you which i also hold one at uncommon five  have been renewed my license of uncommon fines for the last four years now and because ellen told me that just because i own a license to do this kind of business in belmont because it's a separate address i needed a second license so that's why i've got another how long is your lease i signed a lease for a year so it's only a one year lease ok so give it a try yeah yeah i have to tell you there's a lot of concerns i think sammy you were imagine so i thought well ok i'll just she was willing to let me sign a one year lease with renewable the nice thing about this particular spot is that the previous tenant interior designs did a complete renovation of the space two years ago three years ago and i didn't have to invest a dime which was nice looks beautiful new floors and lighting and all of that so it made a lot of sense at that time and so it's a one year lease and a one year license so mr chair as you may have received on our reverse nine one today basically the streets have yes now is melted significantly so that we have done a reverse nine one to  remove the limited parking manned so basically we're back to regular parking regular charge for the second layer is a reminder there went on the reverse timeline about residents to sign up for smart nine one in order to provide our  dispatchers additional information that may help in the event of emergency and they go onto our web page and there's a banner ad that they can click on to register their information that they would like us to know in case we have to visit their home with regard to any special medical conditions or ra any kind of animals that may be on property in life that would help our police or fire to be more prepared to respond in addition to that there was also a reminder  beginning at the end of the month again we have dual stream recycling and basically that means that your rough paper goods need to be separated from your cans in your plastics and the like and basically if  have and i guess the best word is contaminated if in fact the dual stream doesn't happen it causes a problem in the truck gets unloaded at the facility and basically it's a problem for our vendor basically when he gets  that we do have a dual strip stream pick up and that was on the on the reverse call that went out today to remind residents but also if in fact at the end of the month that there isn't a segregation of those materials the recycle will not be picked up in they'll get a guideline with regard to free cash basically what the guideline calls for is based upon the department of revenue parameters with having an amount of free cash that is a percentage of the budget which is recommended at three to five percent so basically take the total budget and divide that by the value of our certified free cash and that percentage should be between the band with the three and five percent percentage in addition to that there's a definition of the general fund budget i think we've been recommending to make the language very simple so basically the calculation of the guideline would simply be the adopt a budget as of july one documentation to the department of revenue who typically certifies our free cash we get the letter in the fall but it's effect of as of july one so basically even though you get certified and get the the notification in the so i guess general fund budget means general fund budget not the budget as it relates to our enterprise fund sounds correct because the general fund budget for the fish here beginning as of the date of the of certified free cash which means just to use an example would have been free cash as of july first two thousand and fourteen so we will look at free cash sort of fight in october to to determine to do the calculation as of the general fund budget revenue budget excuse me as of july first two thousand and fourteen which is fiscal year vision a revenue partner revenue divisional up of services in october and i do a calculation as of july first twenty fourteen to determine the amount of excess free cash that perhaps i could use for my twenty sixteen budget that the point to include the adopt a budget as of july one and then that gets matched up to the certified free cash as of july one i think there was a when we were developing the policy as you recall mr political that we were trying to maybe look at actually a certain amount of money in our capitals stabilization fund but this means these are more open ended for the said boy to make recommendation it allows you to do it it does allow us to do this award committee signed off and this  opposed to trying to do some back ups which i think were put in there when we were trying to use the balance sheet or audited statements as the basis so i think this is a straight forward adopted budget versus certified free cash that this is going to be something this is guidelines right and suppress i'm not going to get stuck up stuck on this i said free cash so the goal is to try to get to a four percent is three to five percent range but then it goes on to defin exceeds the amount equal to four percent or so and it in a challenging year i might want to go to three percent does that still allow us to do that you the targets four percent the range is three to five and basically what it's saying to is is you remember the calculation which is simply if in fact we have a year where that this calculation puts us at five percent let's say or something different six percent that basically the the the guideline has the opportunity to do nothing or to guidelines by i mean for example as you would call this past year we had a certified free cash number in a portion of that was used for the belmont center project so it i think it it allows you to basically use this as a barometer and then use that in your decision making whether or not additional proper ations may be warranted in that terms of how we as a board and perhaps other bodies in town or committee school committee well one committee board school committee would decide the usage of free cash so it's more of a guideline so i guess i'm fine i just don't want us to be stuck on the four percent if in fact we find ourselves in a very challenging year at exactly which we manage may want to keep it we want we may want the floor to be three percent if well which this allows us to be able to do that well would you feel more comfortable saying that exceeds the three to five percent range well and also awesome but there's that's the only reason i would not want to change the game is going to go back to the word committee for further deliberation i think they've already signed off on this so i hope that i think i think i think i have my fun guy you know i think i think of what you know they don't want me to good work on this and i've had to have kicked back again for further deliberation i'm fine with this because again to the point of it being defined as a guideline gives us the flexibility to decide we can either follow the guidelines or not because there is no guideline that requires a specific allocation for a specific purpose ok this is good work this is fine that ok it's a simple no this is a simple guideline and now this has to go back toward committee or i because they basically  draft we now have made some changes to this we will share that with the work committee and then basically i think they want to both of us i think what the i want to point was looking for is for you to place a policy vote it will share with them the small change in the guideline because there were there was an opportunity for questions at the beginning but you didn't you weren't here is there something that you because i don't want to keep you here all night w want and we do have office hours as well what would you do you think that would be better i did i came because i last minute looked up i'm about my name's julie brody i'm a belmont resident and i recently applied for a special permit top rate a home daycare in my home because belmont supports these petitions and has actually never denied one except for one in the past seven years and i was denied because of reasons i feel were completely unjust and i seeing a resident sony and i don't it's complex for me and i would appreciate opportunity to hear from the petitioners on this one or the road and sounding board has recommendations to end the pain and more to me on how we do that but i would like to be more informed than i am today on that is right now unless a lot is five thousand square feet you can't build on it ok it's got to be over five thousand square feet in order to be buildable there are some in town where the lot size maybe thirteen thousand five hundred or fourteen thousand square feet ok so so what it does is it places a particularly you know every peculiar situation a developer comes in and says well i can either subdivided into two lots and put two duplexes own fans to two fans or i can subdivide it and put two single families even though the developer may be a few hundred square feet short they're not allowed to put three single family homes when that may be the more desirable outcome so what this does it's all by special permit and it gives the planning board and the planning tools so that you know developments become more compatible with the with the neighborhood that they're being developed and that's my understanding to find ourselves with different resources we may we may want to say that because i think putting more of a burden on i mean imagine that both of these by was would would involve the commune development department it was more work exactly and frankly i think that they have more work than they can perhaps handle the times it's peaks and valleys i get it that you know there are buildings going up all over town that i wonder whether in fact you know developers that are making representations to the building and then violate those representations i've had that happen to me in my street and then when they get a special permit that's fine and they probably got one anyway but it's almost like they went ahead and did this without you know understanding they knew understand full well what what was taking place they went ahead and did what they thought was necessary to build the lot and then after the fact when neighbors suggested that they in fact deconstruct the facility the building it was too late to really sort of at that point at this call for a special permit i send draft of the articles to town council and they will comment on it and then it will be the draft of the savan thank you for the meeting on the first and then you will vote on the war in article what goes on the  chair i just want to alert the public as to our next meeting agenda meeting tomorrow at eight am it's a business meeting we're basically going through the remainder of the departments and discussing their budgets than the next meeting is friday march twentieth three fifteen p m at the peach street center it's another precinct meeting discussing the financial past force and the school department and the budget in general including the override then monday march thirtieth two thousand and fifteen at seven p m another precinct meeting for the same budget the finance task force and the override