ok i'd like to call to order the monday august seventeenth two thousand and fifteen meeting of the board of selectmen and i'm sammy baghdadi the chair walking and is mark  is i'm going to skip around on the agenda we actually do have we will we will have a member of the permanent audit committee that the chair coming in before us to submit the audit committee report we do have a hearing on the approval of a taxi business license a new taxi business license and we've got some one day liquor license approvals a discussion on pushing village the cushing square development for which we will go in into executive session in a few minutes and then of course we will be brief and discuss deliberate on the special town meeting that took place their briefing all of the town meeting but i said that we would not be doing that tonight i think they should be strictly a discussion between the three of us and you can share and exchange some thoughts and decide on on how to proceed  from here on in so that said let's go through some of the procedural items david approval of night work for store construction at leonard street and concord avenue and we do have the nano and i are in our package yes mr chair so what this request is is to authorize the night work to repair a sewer line in front of the delta during the week of august twenty fourth basically  part of our review of the project we do a survey of the sewer infrastructure in there's a six foot piece of sewer pipe that needs to be replaced which we want to do but obviously before we lay the permanent  pavement the work would be the jackhammering work would be done during the day so that at night basically would be excavation which is a fairly deep excavation and will allow the basically the by pass of the sewer line to occur at a time when the flow in the volume within the sewer pipe is the lowest so that the bypass could be done in addition to that it's a better time to do it in terms of not destructing traffic so again we will work with the contractor to make sure that all precautions are taken to keep the noise as small as possible but again it's in the middle belmont center and basically we will notify the neighborhood as we always do just to alert them of that basically this is probably the most efficient way to get this work done in a way that will have the least amount of disruption and it's the week of august twenty fourth so they'll be patient notice  dollars for the safe program and so mr chair this is a donation we received from w t failon insurance company to augment the donation that you accepted last week from cambridge savings bank basically to support the six student awareness of fire education program and we've provided you some backup materials that you requested to excuse cried the program a little bit more but basically we would ask you to accept the grant so that we can use the funds to implement the program and we also did get a grant was it from cambridge savings bank last week right ok and so that's great and wonderful it's a great program ok you know educates our students on the dangers of fire and the hazard hazards of tobacco products which which also involve fire and now i see there's also a senior safe program that's taking place which which is guided towards educating seniors on potential fire hazards and dangers in their homes so it's a wonderful program it's a nice example of public licenses and those are under tab five they are all i believe related to belmont tell tell is having three events at the jordan athletic center nov third two thousand and fifteen december seventeenth two thousand and fifteen and april seventh two thousand and sixteen so they are being proactive to get them in a timely basis a you just as a reminder meet the annual meet belmont event is scheduled for august twenty fifth at beginning at six p m at the cherry middle school i know that you have been on your calendar invites but for those who may not years was approved the building project for the minuteman high school project was approved by the massachusetts school building authority august sixth i know vice chair pool attended a meeting earlier in that week which you may want to report on  so basically the project now has been approved and goes into the development phase and in addition to that i know that the minuteman school committee will be discussing the financing and the vehicle to obtain information from town meetings with regard to the financing in votes or whether it's a district wide vote as opposed to an individual ptolemy vote by the various sixteen member districts but again the project has been approved by the m s p to move forward so that will now get enter us into another phase primarily about the financing component and  though their approach on his vote for district of holding a district wide vote which is just a plurality so which which means that they would sponsor a sixteen  agreement but they need unanimity if one town says no out of a sixteen and they cannot go out in issue debt for the building and so clearly the administration and dr mcquillan and also the proponents of this oversized project and i'll say that public administration's attempt and i believe just to go around yes due process frankly and i think it's divisive and i've said that publicly and i said that at the meeting the proponents continue to suggest that we should move forward it's interesting that proponents are member towns that have two or three kids going we have thirty five so we have the third largest admit or in the strongest voices to build the six hundred twenty eight school facility have very little children attending in fact one in particular dover who wants to move forward with the project is looking to get out of the district so it's really unfortunate that the administration is having to do this i think we as a board you directed me yes just say to that that mean that we do not favor a district wide vote we influence them even though we did get them letter that they said that they were moving forward with this project this is a real issue for us and a real concern and so i've obviously been corresponding with the are working group here in town and i think we that does not accommodate that's larger than what the district requires today without any solution as to how nonmember towns pay their fair share of the capital costs so do you think that there was among the thirteen communities that were represented after them did not support the school building and half of them and i can't recall the vote chairman have the notes at home after them clearly if not in more than half of them felt that going for ality yeah right is not the right approach because you could have dhamma could vote against it but you know the majority of the other you know resident other towns would vote for it so that's it's just it's it's really unfortunate i mean clearly we would agree that something needs to be done with that school we also have a high school that needs repair and yes they should but but the mission continues to look for if you think about that for a moment jim certain communities that are frankly their payments on a debt exclusion whatever the supportive they might vote in favor of it and they're certainly certain communities that they were a larger school said was i believe that you know this kind of vote i mean it's such a nuanced issue and so it really is about moving forward with the largest school but i think the way it would be it would come off for haps within the communities is that are you for occasional education right or against it and that's not that's not what the vote is for and i said that as well yeah you'll be characterized as an anti vocational education vote versus an anti to big oversized school vote and i say that's unfortunate because belmont strongly supports your creation of education we are continue to be committed to being a part of this just rick and making it work we're not looking to have to address david anything else to assure a couple more things the belmont center bridge will be cleaned her wash this tuesday and wednesday evening  the approval for the bridge cleaning has been granted by the end bta however the board should probably just approve the nighttime work that's been requested so it's not approval of the project but the bridge area it is at the bridge area and we can impose restrictions but i think they will start late evening and basically try to go through a good portion of the night yet and this is you know this is not the town doing the work you know it's not the towns project it's house response well the town's my ability i should say that was an important part of our discussion right several months ago you know this is a group of private residences that last time on because we've gotten some phone calls and i know the board has been focusing on this that basically the materials have been provided in the borders reviewing committee appointments and that the plan is to have appointments  the job smaller yes yes and try and i think those are right and the water billing and sewer billion electric collection system and billing system is moving forward and basically we're changes that were initially believed that could be executed after the pool closes in early september basically the plan was to have some temporary matting and the entryway to the pool but we the building committee and public works and recreation work with the contractor to basically do some small drainage which allow the entry ways to dry which allow the application of in a poxy with obviously the sand and other materials to basically provide a skid free surface in the entryway so the pool the zero entry ways and then we basically install the pads for the handicapped accessibility ramps so basically the pool opened on saturday and there were over eight hundred visitors to the pool on saturday and over eight hundred visitors to the pool on sunday and basically generally the application has worked and  was identified and basically a temporary fix was identified which by using the mats but then it was determined that doing the permanent fix which was scheduled to after the pool closed could be done a lot faster than initially anticipated so it was worth spending the two or three days three days to close the pool to do the application was intended to be done after the pool close of the season did so if they'd been completed ok and then there's still some planning board conditions that need to be satisfied as well and i know that they're being worked on and that discussions took place last week so it's not it's been there's a punch list of construction items and there's a punch list of approval items that are being paid attention to