notice of your intentions does space and needs study give anybody in this room notice they were talking about school closings you are all ok you're sure you never use the word  one thing i will tell you and i'm sorry that i missed past meetings as i would have come if i understood by the way there communicated to us through the  and i always wondered what that was but usually it was a sort of who the meeting is for and their number so i just didn't realize that it was going to parents to attack me or a citizen i didn't know  t and like i said i'm new with getting my kids through the school but i do feel like i'm pretty actively engaged at the h and i'm disappointed that i didn't know about it and i'm not sure what i could have done differently and i know you feel that it's been communicated and there have been twenty meetings or plus but the fact of the matter is there are a lot of people that didn't get the message and so we all want the same thing right we all want to make the right decision but you've got to bring us along with you you know maybe what you guys prefer is the best choice but bring us along with the decision so we understand why it's the best choice and let us know when you're talking about it this is one of those things where like over communicating would be good and trying to hit like a number of different methods of communication so that it's not just like the experience of parents who understand what they need to be looking for it's people who are new to having a kid in school  like me that maybe just don't understand or don't get it but make it be a proof because then we're going to be with you and i will say that on the agenda no i didn't at first i did not think the decision had been me because i thought surely i would have heard of that but then i read the agenda notes and i was under the impression that a vote was taken based on what i read so if that's not accurate if no vote has been taken that and there's something confusing out there because i'm not the only one who thought it was a done deal like people around town  saying it's a done deal i'm not going to go to the meetings and what can we do so i just want you guys to know that i really am hopeful that you will engage just more than especially the stakeholders like not just the principals but the parents the neighbors and make anyone who is going to be impacted by this and let us know what the whole process is because i want to know has are going to traffic study has there been a test has there been that maybe that doesn't come until leader in the process but i don't know that because that's not my job i mean i think i don't know what i don't know so if you guys could really try and inform us on the process and communicate like i know it seems ridiculous to you because you guys  meeting and i don't really understand why you're coming in there when people are scared because we care and want to help you know we want to be part of the solution and you're telling me that there's nothing to misunderstand i mean that's kind for public participation we all of us started the same click in the same place you are i found out about the abuse when my children when my first child was in kindergarten and i started coming because i wanted to know what's going on there is no one here on this panel i guarantee you on the school or trying to struggle and we have not made a decision and we walked out of needing last year the end result was ok let's get a dialogue going next year when the school year begins in our first meeting let's get the dialogue started and figure out how can we get out to parents how can we get into the community as a whole and understand let them understand where we're coming from and talk about the issues because of the end of the day what matters is that everybody has to be on board or at least the majority and if people are on board it's not going to happen but it was something that we researched over the year  many hours of research and we came down to the conclusion that this may be the best possible syria but we're not going to make that decision it's not up to us just five people to build a castle we have to have everyone else on board we have to have discussions we have to have beatings we have to have coffees we have to go to appeal to those we have to have articles newspaper we have to talk to the selectmen we have to go to a town meeting this is a huge process and what the good thing that came out of this is and you know hopefully somewhere down the line they get funded sometimes good for the first try again you don't know but we can't even i can't even talk in told to it to a group of people about this project so it's kind of an interesting process which i we're learning more about that they call the executive director today just decide to give it to the top that's a question the state is not going to allow us to submit a statement of interest for intent is to do this you know much more robust kind of large scale consolidation plan but until they build they allow us to get a seat at the table and have a conversation we can't even bring our consol requested funding for that design have a town see that finally we're now further along in the process and the proposal is to build a new police station behind the existing police station on high street one of the condition that exist back there now if you're familiar with the land time town hall behind the existing police station there is a parking lot that serves as a road right now much of the traffic going from the deerfield school to and from st john's into  m the american legion travel through that parking lot either from deerfield down to new out towards westwood glad mode or in the opposite direction the task force recognized that very unsafe condition we have cars we have navigating a very confusing parking lot there now so one of the things this task force is looked at is in addition to designing a police station removing that traffic by this is the existing town hall building and some parking in front of the building this is the existing police station building these are the parking lot behind town hall and the police station over here is they get it right the american legion is right back here that's their building and their parking area what this claim shows is actually some this is the the after plan the shows that reconfigured roadway right now this portion of a travel agent that's cars navigate through here and through this parking lot and come out to westmead to unnerve here what we're proposing is to take the the traffic continue up here and then create an ember that goes straight up to wind road to do that we have to involve the scout house for our parcel and if you can see very well there but there's a small building here that's the girl scout house so we were before the school committee right down at the end here this this roadway that over the existing traveling now goes in front of our parking spaces that are currently in front of that your field school is for anyone who doesn't have the graphics or can't quite picture this but there's a there's a right of way that's that's technically not a road yet where you come into the end of deerfield road and you make a sharp left turn and there are several parking spaces road reorient the parking along there so that it's a diagonal straight parking as opposed to perpendicular parking we think that would take a lot safer backing out we're also looking to add some additional parking on the other side of that drive right in front of st john's church  partly because we think there's a deficiency of parking currently to your field and partly because st john's has a couple of nursery schools in their building and they could use the additional parking so the layout of that that those parking spaces and that that comes through here deerfield that land is actually part of the field up and what i'm here to ask you for is for the school committee to take a look at that section of land and if you don't feel you need to for other purposes to declare that surplus land and allow the care custody and control to be transferred to the board of selectmen we would take that over but the roadway through there and the parking spaces and maintain the parking spaces permanently so we wouldn't be changing the use of the land but we would be taking it from school land to town my hand and maintaining as a road and will point out that the greatest benefit of this is that we gain the sidewalks so right now right here it's just a paved area as i said that comes through my fests right around like this what we would do is we would put a twenty two foot wide paved road with a continuous sidewalk on the left hand side all the way up to  much improved this vote with the safe side will be out of the parking lot in a safe well contained area that's the first question though that the board consider whether they would transfer that lane to the town now one of the so just to make sure you understand the process that went before now this proposal would have to be approved by the planning board they have to review a subdivision and side plan review for the new development the conservation commission would have to grant approval of a notice intent to allow this to go forward and the zoning board of appeals would have to approve certain variances and special permits so it's a very involved project the planning board in the conservation commission kicked off their hearings last night and and the plan we're hearing has been continued to october sets for further discussion the conservation commission hearing has been continued to next wednesday september twenty third for further consideration at the zone open their meeting also on the twenty third it's only for the first of about that situation so i want to make it clear that this is a lot of opportunity for public comment on the design to see how it goes we did hear from some residents of deerfield avenue last night at the planning board and conservation commission meeting and they had understandable concerns about the traffic that's currently going down this area and they're concerned that if that changes from the informal progression of traffic through parking lots to make uniform of road may cause some people who don't use it now to use it later so exactly what i would say is it is a kind of threw it right now the primary cut through his box help so most traffic that comes from is going to get you one the night comes up k street goes down fox hill and goes on to high street there there are some cars however that do cut through this area but the primary traffic right now is traffic to in from deerfield st john's at the american legion that's really where the traffic is going through now the planning board requested a traffic study and the town is ordering but they didn't put it into the form of a traffic study they took traffic counts they looked at existing conditions they looked at they did the patterns of traffic coming off before it gets to deerfield where comes back and they will present a report that analyzes current movements and suggested predicted movements engineers predicted movements after this was done they will also propose ways of addressing concerns that residents brought up one concern was speed there is speed in during certain times of the day on the road now if you're familiar with there are new whenever there is a school event no one could speed down there because you can barely get down the road with cars on either side of it but when school is not at drop off or pick up there are cars that go quickly so that part of the part of the reason attends interested in this is that by making it a public road we have the ability to control the speed and to enforce the speed limit on that road we don't really have that now because it's not a road after you get to the end of your field it's just a park and we don't have an official approve it they are looking to improve the safety conditions here not to make them more so i would recommend that if you feel you're comfortable voting to make your vote conditional upon a review of that traffic study and then upon the several steps i have to go through your but i guess that would depend on when you could take up the issue again if you could meet after october sense when we have a traffic study and when the planning board has considered it but before the finance commission has to consider the articles for te of temper twenty nine nine is the date of the first hearing our first meeting of the finance commission to review the articles october nineteenth is the date of the final hearing when the articles have to be voted on and sent to town meeting and girl scout houses right now in the town hall parking on the land right before behind the townhouse parking lot and a half acres on what we've looked at and determined to be the most appropriate site for the girl scouts and we've done this  consultation with the girl scouts of eastern massachusetts which own the property and representatives of the western adult girl scouts who have some control over the property we've met and discussed various options and determined that a very attractive option would be using land that's at the hand the school and a half acre parcel that we're recommending we set out is right here it's just beyond the parking this is the school here currently you come in the trial is here and turn around here if you're going to be staying in school for some time you park in this area back here what we would propose is that the school committee release this ha parcel we turn it over to the girl scouts along with funding to allow them to construct a new girl scout house that's equivalent to the existing house they have and in addition in doing that the town repave this section and give you now doesn't exist so we would like you guys to i'm very glad holding off on any vote that starts pushing us toward this or toward any result this sounds lovely except for the town isn't offering enough financial resources courtney offered to build the building since we're not in the business of building built buildings they're not going to do any back right now excuse me and i was at the meetings telling to know that in discussion with both girl scouts of massachusetts and the and the west but adult girl scouts so we have presented options they have received positive for a few and we are continuing the process and as far as the question of  offering funding we actually i don't think you've been involved in the most recent discussion so you're probably not up to date there is funding on the table there is also an organisation in place for design construction and construction management of the buildings so all of this is continuing to be discussed and we have a meeting scheduled i believe one coming up on the twenty third and a process to go beyond that we've had successful conversations and we're working towards an agreement agreement has not been reached it's one piece as i'm really really appreciative someone would write exactly what you said what you decided what you think is best why what the options were why you decided the way you did and here's the u so i can read all the reports because i'm a taxpayer and a voter and you've got a very small percentage of the population blacks would only have to have kids in school and work the rest of us are not getting any information other than what we hear  message chances are it's like this one hundred percent accurate so we haven't done a good job the last two months reporting for i think the blame for that but i can't be blamed for other people's spit on a story newspaper or for five elementary schools that is hugely efficient as relates to operating the school system plus size i'm sure so you're there on that side of the table you're talking about high class sizes fluctuations and class sizes like this one over here i don't have children school system so i don't see any communications that i can think of from the school committee which i understand a lot of the school activities don't relate to me amounts of time but since i live on  is about to kick off not tomorrow not next month but it's in the works in the isn't an area on this for to drastically increase the volume of people on the traffic which is already very difficult  it's already a very dangerous area actually to walk through or drive through this sentence and are already because of the volume of traffic in the parking the people trying to cut cut the way that was saying they cut through deerfield you talking about another couple of acres of woods for the new school the only green area in the isn't is behind him school so if you take a chunk of that out for a bigger school you know it's just getting more and you know what the heck is happening and we're very concerned rightly or wrongly that decisions are going to be made steps are going to take it that we are not aware of that we don't have stirring up in full whether it's because really ignorant whether it's because we were evenings because we didn't know they were happening we didn't understand the minutes whatever the reason was we're going to get to a point where one day we get a notice or see something in the newspaper like hey go tearing down the deerfield school in there you know ripping out three acres of woods behind that feeling that you know i don't want to find out two years from now that something happened today that i didn't know about but now i'm paying the price so between safety environmental impact  make it state of the art they can add some more green space like maybe some extra cheese and like a you know a just and nice environment to be a student recess whatever and then i read that they would like to of walking up to a school or going through this enormous parking lot and it just seems it seems cold and like the middle of the city like we moved to the suburbs so that our kids could you know running the grass during their recess hour and and sort of have things that are also looking nice you know we spend a lot of money to live here and i'm concerned that if little field and then i've heard in this could be rumor fact i don't know that there was also a suggestion just to do away with the field altogether i don't know fact or fiction but anyway i'm just concerned about the green space because they do feel like that's a healthy environment for sure you know that air is cleaner it's more pleasant to be and we actually university school but not for an elementary school so that was in the city you know well they did have green space actually but limited i understand how you can have sort of i love we discuss the high level we would be deciding on architecture and landscape it just high level because for us you don't know of any further buildings this kind of the whole subject built you know but it actually is a pretty good shaping can support our it support our education program in our population the kids for the for the foreseeable future at some point in time no this year we will need to