work to do this year and i'm looking forward to working with time and adam of course on all of these issues before we begin with our business though unfortunately we receive bad news yesterday my good friend and former selectman bill skelly passed away bill served on the board individual who i thought you know did made decisions that was best for belmont so sorry to hear about his passing his wife passed away a little hundred a year ago so bill has now left us god bless you bill for all that you've done for belmont want to thank you for your yeah he said he did that when he worked for polaroid and it was he's called he called me only a few weeks ago to talk about how to get more involved with that sort of thing so it's kind of shocking i know now that he passed so he grew up and he recently just came back and he had his wife just came back to beaumont about a year ago he pretty excited when we talk about organization let me give you my thoughts and you may have some thoughts as well so and i want to make a big deal out of this could be a lot of work to do this year so last year it's sort of when i cycle when i got on the board and we made ralph's here that he was here again for two years he was here for two years and i became chair for two years and i don't know whether it was rotating in last year if you call out and i said let's rotate it and i thought that what made sense to me and like they were both of you think that we rotated in this way the first year to the politicized because it became somewhat divisive i thought we were discussing chair with jim in c and it was on the board and it just wasn't pleasant that we have to work together going to a lot of issues that we have to address here in town and so i know i mean i certainly would love to deep politicize it i think it might be a good idea once we're done with today to maybe amend our selections operational policy to add a paragraph about how we also about how we do this then you know people get their feelings hurt because the p i say i do think i do think the running for reelection piece is a problem i think the selectmen first year chair or second your vice chair third year makes more sense and then i think the fact that jim decoupled the chair of the and you've been chair i've certainly watched you from abroad before i was on the board and i think you know whoever ends up chair will be also might not but i think you know i think that the the i think that being the chair in the when you're when you're up for reelection you can't devote one hundred percent of the time that i think that's makes more sense just in the in the election cycle obviously if it goes from three to five selecting the whole thing will have to get reworking i think for now that that would seem to me the best way to him so i like the idea of actually trying to l n as much as possible and i think the thought that we've got a structure that goes year to year makes sense i do i think i think support the second year being the chair in that campaign year being a vice chair i think that actually makes sense and probably balances the needs of a candidate's time to campaign with the demands of the job and the role so to the degree that we could embrace that and kind of more lies that in policy i think that makes  say this year i'd like to have three very simple rules one no drama two second i'm leaving the board because it's going to be pretty boring to be respectful and three don't waste anybody's time first to say thank you to you both you've given me some good advice over the last few months about what this role entails and help me think about it properly so i appreciate that really look forward to working with you  i've had the luxury of not having a contested campaign and what that's allowed me to do is turn what was traditionally going to be a election campaign into much more of a listening campaign so i spent the last three or four months really sitting down with a lot of town residents sometimes in larger groups sometimes in small coffees at someone's home and in a lot of cases one on one and trying to listen to the ideas and the concerns that members of the community have and it's actually been great it's been energizing because i think there is a real passion in belmont for doing the right thing for the community and that's been great i will say i've also heard a lot of you know folks there kind of close to the challenges that we're facing really expressing some level of concern you know some level of you know we have these major capital projects you know we have challenges around our budget how are we all going to work together to get through that so i think with that in mind and in a lot of the from what i've heard in the past i think you're both very thoughtful about this is as well but i think it's time for us to sit down and figure out what does that strategic planning process look like how do we tie it in with a longer term financial plan how do we work collaboratively to address a lot of the underlying needs of the capital projects within town and figure out how we balance all of that i've been involved high school building committee it's inception  definitely a project that i believe is critical to the town and i want to make sure that we work to ensure is ultimately successful on the ballot but i also recognize it's only one of a number of different projects that we need to work through and i think it'll be important for us to try to do that in a collaborative way bring as much input from the town as possible but also probably make ultimately some tough choices around how we how we structure that so i look forward to that  s i do think another element of the work that i'd like to see this board take on is a focus on trying to address whatever we can do around revenue the continuing to make revenue a priority  there's a variety of different options out there none of which will solve a problem with a snap of a finger but i think our collaboration with the planning board the housing trust there's a variety of groups i think we can work with in town to help facilitate the growth in commercial appropriately appropriate growth the commercial tax base in town as well as a number of other opportunities to leverage federal grants state grants other means of  helping to provide additional revenue into town as well as ways of trying to leverage the existing assets that we have in town and i think that's something that i'd like to see this board take on as well i think that will be important when we go to the voters in the coming with various different requests that they know that we're being a great steward of their money in terms of official government but also working to raise as much revenue as we can so i think that's it i think i totally agree with everything that you just said excellent it's going to be a very few years financially but i think we have the a great team in place and will be able to you know meet those challenges thank you i appreciate the opportunity i agree but as far as office hours goes i guess for thomas benefit we've sort of been done lately on an ad hoc basis like the rules that we passed require that you don't have to have office hours for the public come to meet you one on one outside of these meetings however if you do set them up send to the town i'm in a straight office we would all send the time minister's office is our current rules that we're doing them so that they can put it on the town website so presidents know and also so that we don't overlap each other and have competing competing office hours so  out they were already there but i've had people come to the beach center into the the library and such we can talk about what they want to have a more formal as we sort of been doing it on an ad hoc basis you can have them or not have them i've been doing the monthly you don't have to  like one of the questions more of a scheduling thing i don't care whether you have them or don't but it's really a matter of you know making sure that the time to mr know so they can publicize them which will help people show up yet plus of that we don't compete with each other having office hours on willingly so we once a week or two i mean which should think about i like your idea about so the selectmen are having office i was and it just depends who rotates through that could be it could be that there's one a month and we take a month or we could be all three of us go every month but that might be we might end up with no one showing up here because i don't think it's enough  know i don't know i mean if you think about it but now i'm just going to get out some months in various locations in town and we can decide if we rotate through that because the other question i have is can we look at a calendar of events where we know a lot of the residents will be you know i would also note the committee preservation committee as the parks commission is we do get a seat on that so that should probably have an asterisk on it as well the belmont high school building committee we also have an appointee to tom and i are both on the bomb on high school building committee and obviously we can't both be on i  is like when representatives we would also create a cycling scorm if we did that so i think since tot tom was on this high school building committee before i joined it and he's been on the school committee i i would defer to tom and step off of the high school building committee and if tom wanted to continue on with that i would be keen to continue on that thanks so i would switch that over to tom as far as the others i mean i found and i thought i like the fact that jim put me on the permanent audit committee because i've even though we only meet four times a year they go through the budget in really fine detail i found it really educational when i first joined the board going to those meetings and it was not a whole heavy lift because they don't meet very frequently i thought that and that's why jim put me on it was to learn miller about the budget just listing the ones that jim's on wreck commission and traffic advisory committee and then tom took on school committee permanent audit committee c p c the community preservation committee i probably want to stay on the light board to september cycle or january to december cycle because that's the light department's fiscal year or the whether we do it the organizational meeting every year i don't particularly care but i just i want to get the general manager thing done because i'm i'm secretly into that right now we're almost at the finish line so i don't know if anybody had me and then mark would stay on for major capital capital projects working group that work their library yeah you know i wouldn't you know what i would never move is important work for the library truss stevie's capital budget committe has obviously written a middle the capital budget the community path and advisory committee council on aging mark would stay on all of those does that sound like a plan that they're patrice or anything that we're any committees that we're missing or any new ones or it took off in the first year and it's sort of been in sort of these came well you know we talk to one of the meetings about how i'd like to do and i've talked to some of the business people getting a group of business folks together to create a committee where they would then study for a year where they find there are impediments to doing business and government things that they have found to be originally used and thence find out what the issues are and come up with possible solutions so we can sort of pinpoint from people who've been through it  particular license or permit or this particular thing i had to do it took too long i did and other towns that didn't this was a little off the way that i usually see it in other places and have suggestions so we can make it more friendly for business i thought that would be something and the economically or community sources of revenue and perhaps that could be part of it that's why i would like to specify the charge a little bad what i'd like to do is honestly since this dormant anyway just let me talk with this last year disband it create this new not doing it today create this new committee to do the search do the search come back with a report and then create a new economic development committee that would be based with a new charge based on whatever the results of that study are i'm not going to pre judge with that i think it's a good idea so that's what i was thinking but again that's not for  tuesdays and thursdays now so three preservation committee meets once a month floyd you know it's chaired by peg and it's it at this point for a town meeting it's pretty much done we have the projects we've they've gone to the war committee yet this at this point it's really the work is pretty much done and then it really board of assessors energy committee financial task force although we're going to talk about that another time board of health housing trust planning board and zoning board of appeals because we talk in this life there's no real what's a liaison to there's only board going to do i mean there's no if they have anything to go to be honest i think with these committees we could even once a month you know to sort of rotate the chairs to come or if the whole committee wants to come post a joint meeting and just have them talk to us whenever roger has committed from the educate them whatever capacity  lot about what they're working on it is exciting stuff and i see their agendas but some groups agendas are more detail than others it's a little hard to tell sometimes what's actually happening yet from just reading and reading the minutes of the meeting but i think that i don't know that we need to have a standing yeah april ninth i guess will be the next meeting and there will be a board meeting prior to that where we'll be what we'll be interviewing in public for the final two candidates for the general manager slot on monday so five o'clock will be here reconvening to interview in public on t v the two finalists for the general manager of belmont light and then at seven o'clock we'll have our usual slike was meeting sounds good and other than that take a motion to ad