ok i'd like to call the board of selectmen meeting of monday august thirty first two thousand and fifty and fifteen to order we have a very limited agenda tonight most of our time will be reviewing committee appointments and making committee appointments i'm sammy baghdadi the chair and to my left is jim williams and mark palermo the vice chair will be joining us shortly david calle is al to my left town administrator what i'm going to suggest is why don't i take things out of order and you know we'll go over the more routine matters on the agenda and even you know  the the appointments that i think we have agreement on that we did have a working session last thursday morning to go over committee appointments so first thing i'm going to do is approval of one day beer and wine license application from a kitchen on the common at four forty two common street for a wine tasting dinner on monday september twenty eighth two thousand and fifteen david he applies for those pretty often and we've never certainly heard nothing but we've we've had no complaints and i think he's got it down to a process and a procedure so jam unless you have anything to add i do not i think we can move to approve the simple as that or do we have to say that i would say mr chairman i move to prove one day beer and wine license application from me ea ink also known as kitchen on the common for forty two common street for one tasting dinner on monday september twenty eighth two thousand and fifteen ok i second all in favor with the minuteman administration and then he will be organizing meanings of the next several weeks with each district to go over the school size him to answer additional questions and talk about changes in the way they are schedule a meeting with minuteman to talk about these topics as frankly they move the next phases and then clearly assuming they meet the requirements of the m s p in their terms of their approvals basically the funding of the project will be something that will need to be talked about and the other thing is again we're continuing to do work in belmont center clearly there was a reverse nine one one today and on cable t v about the fact that concord out of to the center will be closed off by a large me it will be open during the evening but during the day they're doing grindin overlay and basically will be laying new pavement same thing on the other side of the square we know it's an inconvenience but basically we're trying to do this work before labor day during the day so that basically when things get back into full swing next week that basically that part of the project will be finished so we're no dissent out of this as they because i got a few complaints my sense is the notices were not as time as they should have of it right outside here on card good out of two of the bridge and then more to the center and basically will have detour signs and then on the other side of the square so basically this is part of the project we're trying to do in a time will hopefully be the least problematic but it we understand it is problematic and fortunately it's a necessary convenience and you know well i'd like to say mr chairman if i may that the sidewalks on the east side of leonard street look great i also sent an e mail to glen clancy the other day because i was driving down concord avenue from bright street to the library suffer this week but and it is a busy time because it's back to school time so so the sooner the work gets done at this point the better and you and i can schedule something with the with the minutemen with the minuteman people i would also like to say i did notice that belmont center bridge has been power washed you know and it certainly looks a lot better  my understanding is maybe a little bit more cleaning work is a few sections that didn't come out as good as the contractor would have liked so i think the plan is to go back to it or in the season try to take some of the blemishes off ok how would you characterize that as a that's not a public that wasn't a public private movement it was a group of it was a private movement of interested citizens who thought it should be done and said i will raise the money and yeah  so not not not it was not a town initiative although we we did give our support to the project and i myself personally helped them get the the power washing really so we all put a little bit and you know we all put a little bit and you may not recall but angela frenzy had a birthday party and  gift was to make a donation to power wash the bread and he raised quite a few thousand dollars that way so so it was a community effort so with that mr we can get to the appointments if you wish ok so let's go to committee appointments ok and what i'm going to do is right so why don't we go why don't we go one by one and we can get the ones that require the three of us to engage in a discussion so the first one is cable television advisory committee that is the committee that helped us in the negotiations over the cable contract with comcast and and now there is a that's going to take place with our eyes and as well for a ten year license to provide cable to the town cable t v it's a committee of three myron kesa robbo wish not to be reappointed right now we only have one chairman i don't know in reynolds but that's my fault not hers right and she was unable to complete her applications or rely on your good offices if you know or and can recommend or than  the cable television advisory committee ok i second all in favor of ok ok community community preservation committee this is one where we have a lot of applicants ok i'm i'm happy to say we have one opening because paul solomon who who was actually you know one of driving forces behind the town's adoption of the of the community preservation act paul does not wish to be reappointed this time around  do you want to wait for mark or my recommendation you know my recommendation was i think we've got a lot of great applicants and i hope we can get each each of fits fits that slot and he was a former member of that committee as well so so you know to me he's got the experience to be up and running  if if you think that deserves further discussion we can skip over it and wait for mark know if i'm ok with it i think mark indicated in our working session that he would support andy's membership  recommendation was for sylvia cruz and as you say there are a number of obviously qualified people it's an interesting committee chaired by floyd carmen very well run and  so i can support them in the role of us being appointed to the committee and i think you know i've heard sylvia speak up at a town meeting and make comments and i'm actually delighted that she wants to get involved i think she'd be an excellent addition and i'm hoping that like i said just before dinner last week if we can find another committee for her i believe part of our discussion i can get  with this this was her first choice in her other choices were recreation commission and economic development advisory committee if we can keep those in my ok thank you very much he will return to do i hear a motion  we have two openings on conservation commission and again a number of applicants i am delighted to say we have two openings  ok david webster who has been a long time member and has contributed for many years positively to the conservation commission has chosen not to be reappointed and then you kno and there were a couple of residents when i attended conservation commission hearings would sit in the audience and participate you know participate from the audience with the business of the conservation commission they were very interested and and you know i think when a when every didn't actually shows up to meetings regularly without even being on the committee it says something about  their you know interest in the committee and their dedication you were going to check on it we did get a holy mary on vacation who's coming back today and she said the individual you're thinking about is daniel nolan ok in the work of the conservation commission he's been attending meetings for months without without even having been appointed you know of the others  i guess the only other thing i would raise is in our working session mark had indicated that you know tina was a lawyer and mark had indicated his thought that maybe it would be nice to have a lawyer on the conservation commission commission as well the lawyer of the bond which there happens to be one is julie heller julie heller but i confess i don't know julie so third appointment to be made in this one no there's only two there's only two so i believe that we discussed your comments about mr noel and we agreed to ask bonnie to perhaps look at something else i thought my memory serves me correctly and then deborah deutsch i thought there was also another opening so maybe mark you have recommendations from the skill set that's necessary the other thing i'd like to say about bonnie is that i don't think she's an attorney but her two choices were conservation commission which we just settled in the community preservation committee those are the only two choices that she indicated an interest and sure to her name which to the conservation committee in the community preservation committee and we earlier we had based on our working member of the committee i've seen him at at meetings and judy sent her as well has requested to be reappointed no openings other than the three re appointments so i suggest we re appoint the  might fit in well and then the other one that i had was julia jenkins and this was the only the only one that she she's on with your life work you know and wasn't she she had had and i see no reason why we can't do that or point me as you julia to this up well i mean i'm going to affix i would say i would advise that we look at the composition type first to see if there's a set number and i don't and statutory nature and there are so many vacancies here it's difficult to find folks and basically the well i wonder whether we should ask well let's keep names of individuals that don't get a point and well they're going to guess one of the charges is that one identify yourself oh sorry i even hate president and per the tax eleven members is what the membership is and according to the website there are only eight members certainly understand the prequalification  as up for reappointment it's been chaired by tommy olson who i must say has been a bundle of energy she's certainly been working at the committee has been meeting fairly regularly and she's been trying to get  you know often going keith andre who is the belmont savings bank representative has has requested not to be reappointed and and correct me david  the been there are several members that have not responded correct whether they want to be two or three appointed ok so so all we really have now who's the administrator or or director of the watertown belmont chamber of commerce should be a good addition mr chairman we spoke about this during the working session also i think all four of these individuals are eminently quali also this happens to be one of my liaison committee so ok and i've had lunch with tom the scene around this yeah and you're right she's very enthusiastic i would like to suggest that we renew the appointments for years we did last year in then allow us to come back to the board with a renewed charge and then restructure the committee i also my final comment would be that i think this committee fits in very well with the vision twenty one report which is an important document appointed for a member of the economic development advisory committee for one year second all in favor and you know you know as far as the other the others who have responded i mean if they watch us tonight and they write in and say please please i meant you know two to three appointment we can discuss it in another yes of or not at another meeting there is a schedule of just to say yes  scholarship committee we have three openings vega forensic has asked to be reappointed one of the members of then you know god rest his soul passed away in the last year and there was an existing vacancy on the committee we have two new applicants ok mary mccormack and julie cro and i think we were favorable  there are there are three three people who are currently members who seek reappointment and that's helen bakeman lisa gardner tried reyes who was passed chair and and for really s former chair of the committee the planning board personally i think it's nice to have different skill sets there's a group on committees and you know housing trust has traditionally been a magnet to people who are professionally aligned with you know affordable housing development either they work for housing process and other locations or or you know or in that field which is fine i think is great but i also think  you know don mercier kind of brings the perspective of a person who manages commercial real estate which and has constructed commercial real estate which as i look at at the committee is know we demean the town has made a lot of progress on affordable housing through the offloads obviously and our our new human resources manager department you know i asked david to look into and we can expand so we've got two additional applicants sarah jane h right now and barbara fiasco is the associate member and she's the attorney of the planning board she's the attorney member of the planning board you know she's done a great job she's been an active participant and yet you know i know certainly this is the desire of the chair would be to move barbara from the also think that we need to think about something to get gangs out started he's a town meeting member has heard him speak a number of times in perhaps the planning board is not the right committee for going to get started but we do need sanderson and and and others were really interested in the planning board you know i'd like to see them attend meetings i'd like to see them participate from the audience and you know now i think they're going to need relief and you know they've been engaged in so much design review that i think it's holding them back from their planning function so  i i do see another role planning board related that some of these applicants can play in the future but i hesitate at saying this one can and can't write i think it's something we need to flush out more but right now the planning board is so bogged down with design review applications that i think there is a role where a lot of these applicants can be involved and i would encourage some of the newer africans to show off to the planning board meetings participate from orleans become familiar with what the planning board is doing like that gentleman has done with the conservation  helpful to understand what you're saying that you perhaps we could staff this so rather than having a committee and i think that's that's a fair point victory ok all right the reformation was an amendment to this math sullivan has indicated that he would also like to be on the right commission ok the man has met sullivan well let me let me start by breaking it up then the chair david kane has requested the appointment and len findlay has requested reappointment  katie bone and has indicated that she does not wish to be reappointed and we have a vacancy because the chair has requested calley lenahan be removed because she doesn't attend meetings she's she's not been participating so why don't we do this that leaves us with true to me appointments and a total of four appointments for four for recreation commissions so what i'm going to suggest is why don't we first vote to reappoint the chair david kane and we appoint lynn friendly so moved second ok all in favor of a post ok unanimous ok had next what i would say is let us vote to remove off the top i do know that you with the removal of one more three year term another two year term we can get back to an expanded if we can expand that would say put them out on because he's already on the traffic advisory which is an important one we want to give him another one an urban planner community planning to think it's a good skill to have taken soccer coach that committee because eventually as we've discussed we'd like to take a look at a town wide plan for parks and look into it i support the concept if we're going to if we can you know if we can appoint all three that's great maybe talk to the chair as well you know i hate to expand committees in a part of it is one of the things we probably need to consider and i don't want to make  committees more and more complicated than it needs to be but this whole idea of so should membership to new membership where there are active on the committee but then we have a vote the well and it feeds up m planning board we had to amend our bylaws but i'm wondering if on some of these committees we can create an informal class you know without necessarily going to tell meeting but as a way to take this talent r involved even if it takes a member of either of the bible was covered cover so i mean not recently but some of these discussions of communities it's like to like the town shall have a recreation commission i think out of respect to the chair we should let the chair when it needs to comment on ok all right vision twenty one implementation committee we've cut two seeking reappointment jennifer page mary craig white has applied for the appointment as as an associate member and is interested in be ok his term is up as an associate and he's interested in becoming a full member so i can you know he served as an associate he wants to move up his term is up i could see supporting krag the other person we spoke about with with much construction experiences for gary you know who i think would and he has been a vocal town meeting member but you know he's the pork gentleman who gets up to the mike and before he speaks the question you know the article gets moved that's right you know cast force implementation committee mark what you know this is a by product of the finance the work that's right national task force and that's something that you have taken the lead on you know so what i would suggest is before we on the membership and let you work on that and then the next let's go to the op ed study group which is a by product of efforts you will see that jim has worked on a charge you know ok which which he put together this weekend i think jim did a great job with with with his drafting what i try to do is i try to it i would say the motion that the board approved the following charge the old have studied with mr chairman i recommend that the board approve the following charge for the open working group do i just read the charge evaluate the current policy and consider whether it's prudent to adopt alternative operating and funding alternatives for the town's unfunded liability liability second i'd like to also add in some of the other conditions just so the public knows the charge for the working group includes a sixty day term and it also asks for draft do ten of these a week now everybody is working full time so i understand that everybody's not working full time but a lot of this information is already is already organized you know we have a current actuarial study we have a current financial statement so you know they're not on a magical mystery tour the numbers will be in front of them easily and if they if they hit us a roadblock as sammy said earlier you know they can come back ok no i mean i think we're just appoint the following individuals for membership in the open study group richard wearing ralph jones christine doyle jeff toobin liz allison and michael widmer second ok we've done a considerable down on committee appointments there's a few others that we discussed or for working group that we haven't you know that are i think do we do the water advisory board we already did  ok we have an executive session what i'm going to kind of wait ok i don't see anything that's absolutely ok good by me ok but but let's do this of the approval of minutes ok we have march twenty seventh teen excuse me march twenty eighth of seventeen april twenty seventh a full twenty nine may fourth and twenty eighth which i had some  to may twenty eighth executive session and regular session room first regular meeting june third regular meeting that's as far as i've gone i know jim had some revisions to which i had no problems i went through all of them with and provided a written summary so can we at least approve the minutes i've gone through which is about moving group ok so this is march twenty  seventeen april twenty seven twenty nine may or may twenty eighth regular may twenty eighth executive june first regular june third regular so i hear a second