good morning today's friday october august twenty fourth two thousand and eight screen and do not adjust your sets this is in fact the belmont board of selectmen meeting on friday morning to do committee appointments i'm chair adam dash with me is good morning and we're going to be making a bunch of committee appointments this morning this is a special meeting for that topic only since we have two members here in the room we're going to start with the stork district commission so they don't have to stick around through all the process here i've i've gone through and sort of mapped it all out but obviously you guys vote or you want to vote but i'll tell you what i was thinking and then you can tell me what you think but this is historic district commission we have three openings to make soup you of recommended michael chesson who's currently the alternate member to be bumped up to full member and i think he's definitely have served which then leaves two vacancies one full one alternate and i was looking at the and i was looking at the applicants here and i liked work schedule required a quite a lot of travel and he just wasn't able to make the meetings he comes out occasionally but just really wasn't able to do the work like carla bowen after his children graduated from college study committee are very exact as do a business and pushing if there's a vote so that's tough to fill the slots we've done that today it looks like so we've already filled with emma thurston who is the non center business catherine waverly square business from helen as susan shallow from the beer said the beer seller which is the belmont center business yes wendy atkins who is the non who's just the resident can be she's a business person but she's not a business person which leaves two vacancies left which is the waverly square business and the business owner who's also a resident we have one of each of those today we have our turn to guy and from our specialty is in waverley to fill the waverly slot and we have kathy crowley from the belmont this is the beginning of a new committee so we don't have a this is your idea right now i'm happy to do it because i'm the one who brought me you know and i think perhaps you should because you have certain ideas about which i support but i think it's a committee that really needs support and direction from them or not i'm happy to do think i have about thirty grand that we're going to get three thousand dollars they need then we'll get we can get it i can get to help the committee do a lot of the data that needs to be collected the other thing to keep in mind is that vision twenty one implementation committee has been doing some of this data and polling business is what they would like to see and i know now they lay in those very interested in in liaison with this study committee to avoid duplication of effort because they've done some groundwork already yeah i think the piece that the planning commission the involved somehow don't find can't find their way and committees continue meeting yeah folks that have been here for a long time serving in the you know productively and well for us continue to be reappointed committee so when new people want to step up  number but they have one two three four five people up for reappointment who want to be reappointed and one laura laura lee giamatti who does not want to be reappointed so i was going to reappoint and that good road juliette jenkins who is the chair then marsha seminoles even though she's on the record i think she'd be really good on cultural yes on that would get you to thirteen which is higher than the usual ten but way below the twenty two yeah i think is i'm guilty yep and also we didn't have that twenty two people that you know the names i can do it activation this ability access commission we did the appointment last time but i will i will note that there's still an opening for an alternate on disability access commission we and i understand it's a little difficult as a certain number of the members ha have after either be disabled or have a disabled member of the family so it limits who can apply but and thank goodness the opening is only the alternate slot but i'd like to fill it if anyone out there is watching would like to apply or knows anyone would like to apply is the alternate is this ability access does that mean there are two vacancies like we can appoint three people because one is a report writer does that mean there we only can appoint two people ok sorry would be one of them so mary would be one of them and then clarity and or should lou i think send letters to everyone saying thank you for applying i hope you reapply next year you know we really appreciate it we can't appoint everybody as you just saw they're great people but there are only x number of i think it would be good maybe in that letter to know if there are vacancies you know we were only able to fill the following three spots if you human rights commission all right so this one gets complicated karl brauer the chair has or has stated he really really really needs these fill because there are six vacancies out of twelve and yet hampering his committee and they're getting ready for things like ok breakfast and that they really need to get this up and running and i apologize that we bumped it this far but i said it the problem is you have like a ton of at this point the most applicants absolutely and it's very difficult however and they've these people who applied other things so what i've done  that's why i'm calling those two out to start with agreed so i would think i would defer to the chair also debbie king being an attorney african american think would be a good fit for the human rights i'm sorry which would and then  can favor so my next thoughts on these are there are i was the kings they haven't had ten people thinking of getting them up to eleven although you could actually get him up to twelve and solve one of the problems of the high school students because they're too high school students who are actually really good and i was i was really torn between edward lee who's the model un and a mandarin speaker in the june june year which is good and a junior and matt o'connell vale was also a junior and has done a ton of community she graduated yeah she graduated i mean let's put the two on that's what i was it would get them up to twelve if you go through all the rest of my mail i don't think that's a problem if you have two high school students want to model you and twelve the number you're as of now and i think we should support that human to the human rights commission second that favor and that should do it right one two three it's well five six and that gets them up to the full amount the full twelve wonderful that's great i'm really a group i really appreciate the people who applied for human rights commission there were a lot and fortunately i think there were probably just as many people if not more who applied to we could not find seats for but some people are going on other things right now and i would also hope i'm sure we do that you know we pass these names along to karl again these may be folks who w  i just noticed but that would be great i didn't realize that she just got in the small as you are going to get out if you could just get a resume and get a b and make sure and i don't remember ellen cushman was here before and she said it's not everyone has to be disabled or have a disabled steve sollars term is up as last we heard he had not responded but i was going to put him back on because i think he would do it and this is i think i think the point was the evolution of this committee which i never knew the point to try to make is that i think historically i think before i get on the board if i'm recalling that we didn't really have a represented there and discussions with the the time moderator it would be helpful to have a member of the board you know that sort reports back to the  with you know of course the condition that it find out whether he still has an interest i just don't like the fact that if in fact they have a meeting and it shows up that is not legally appointed we want to lease paper that over and then if he decides he doesn't want to resign or something we board we're not going to be dealing with until september seventeenth because you've got t we appointed him last year to fill the one year of liz alison's terms was one year is up right he would be a full three year term then you've got the vacancy for the alternate opening sanderson vacated and then you've got one two three four i don't want this to be a controversial i don't think it will be i think unfortunate assets divided the board and that's unfortunate should i think we all of this sort of points of view in mind here we have nine applicants three of whom i like so i mean i also carl and i have no problem with all trucks going to come on the seventeenth that we have any thoughts from him i thought i started something i think karl's been on since ninety nine we did get something from chuck i thought you don't seem to have it in front of seventeenth with and with chuck clark which are going to be interested in meeting the week that first week in september and i'm gone because this might be another issue that i you might need to put on a contract for the better to morrow if you can meet that week you could i was what i was thinking was reappointing or the one opening there's an alternate yes ok i was thinking of reappointing carl and ed to the full terms and then interviewing these people for the alternate slots as a way of like sort of moving people in w bringing two brand new people on in the middle that i think would be folly that i just i've always thought i would employment we can do that now but i would like to have heard from the chair both of them i mean again i think he would friday five six seven i can't do the fourth i can do nine one one item on the agenda could i do my yeah and i'll get i'll get her out there i will know monday whether or not to definite this meeting may not happen we're just going to put it on my ok you can see this invite and yeah i'll send it monday once i'm confirmed and as far as the twenty first said the only thing is that and this plays into the traffic advisory committee which we might want to just get into right now which is that ray astroid us applied for both plain board and tac and i was thinking of putting him on  these people have been put on the other fellows who was tracy marquis we just put on historic ok so they're all sort of there's a lot of these people who are already sort of on things or being given things not everybody mean there are couple who still would be around we go yeah i think that i think that's what i would like to hear from jack as well all right so moving to traffic advisory committee i was thinking of i think we just need to add you know try to bring in some new voices because that's taking on a larger role  pugh for his service on tac it's not a reflection on that at all it's simply that we have a lot of applicants for a lot of committees we can't put people on a lot of people on multiple committees that are popular if you want to be on something like housing trust we've got an opening but as far as things like tax historic we have a lot of applicants so i really i'm looking forward to her service on historic district commission which is important it's a case in which could someone send her direct e mail explain the situation rather than just the form letter would be good to just just made just make sure you know what the rationale was that we take her service and that we're really just reallocating her you have to just talents to another committee where she could be very very helpful and also be so we can't put more change terrific people can't be on every committee rose these new people who want to get involved will never get going thanks thank you i feel bad about it but on the other hand will never get anybody new if we don't make some hard choices right which means getting to recreation commission which was our last one for today so recognition i've had some conversations this looked like it was going to be difficult and now it doesn't look like it's going to be difficult so we've three vacancies three openings and there are three people who want to be reappointed mary bradley you know had trouble making meetings and that if we wanted to replace or she had no problem with stepping back because she's had she has missed a lot of meetings so i was thinking going through the applicants here we have put a lot of these people on other committees  so i was thinking of kimberly haley jackson to be on there she's a parent she's been someone who has raised issues of programs and wants to really fix them and she's a high energy person i think that we would inject a little something to wreck commission would be good i mean for instance we put you on the you know we've talked we've put money in lou we put when diac in these people been on we've talked about them for other stuff yet so i thought i would recommend reappointing mar kimberly for the reasons you mentioned i also think she she has a data background which i think in this type of thing you know when you're trying to analyze but effectiveness of programs and write the programs i think that could be where she's going to know all kinds of when you'd best well association new applicant we're going to get info on and then we've got an opening on housing trust we do need a person for that there's no one that's applied we point to the people we point to and we still have one if we asked the housing trust group whether or not they first right so what we've what we're going to do just as a programming note for viewers on monday night we have a six o'clock the light board yes meeting and then at seven o'clock the selector are going to me and what we're going to do is open the meeting and then we're going to go into the business about the high school stuff all recuse myself or to do that we'll take a recess i'll come back and then we have an executive session and then a bunch of other stuff ok you're fine with that ye i mean i don't i feel bad i want people to wait till the end of the meeting it's just all that was the comment yeah yesterday the only problem is that because we normally i wouldn't mind but we have the light board meetings that i'm going to be here that i have to sit around and have to catch up and it's kind of awkward to not put it at the end but i don't want people to wait around us for that