meeting and and get to meet those folks and get to know some of things on their plate and and i think one of the things they're hopefully for further discussion in the near future some ideas on how it's done internally so we can quickly deliver some and you know data from for the decision making so some of those ideas for the for the future again it's still early but it's something the talk about i think in upcoming upcoming meetings so with that i also wanted to acknowledge that we received under the energy committee comments to the building high school building committee and that i think there's a lot experience as well but i think from what i've gathered this would be a valuable opportunity for for belmont is that previously i say as a region on the board of directors for the american public program the deed program is basically the research and development arm of a p p a for public power across the country region eight basically encompasses the northeast including new york and pennsylvania and some of the highlights are basically there's there's grant funding they say the mission is to have utilities submit cutting edge designs then the there's ten regions the throughout the country we then conven evaluate the applications and decide word provide the seed money to you know have the kick off the projects and have delivered rules that are transferable across all public power in the country  and so along with the grants funding there's also scholarships and internship opportunities and some members have access to the historical data and my prior experience we leveraged the database of deliverables for the strategic planning so what does that mean for us about twenty three hundred dollars annually to twenty four hundred but i also want to want to bring it up intentionally for the duties our votes as a board member so currently with that but i think it's valuable the good thing to gain the insight and and and then vote and have a say into what you know initiatives are worthy of investment it sounds like a great top or fallen back closer to schedule the next item f y twenty seventeen audited financials just for the public to remember that the life department operates on the calendar year physically as opposed to the town which operates like department so i would like to start from the internal control report and the comments we have an internal control reported on the comment perhaps but this year is a conference who will collections and it's like continuously and find a work around how we can handle it so that the goal like my goal for the next like few months just to create internal procedure to collect like collab this type of as it is this procedure is approved for the medically protected individuals do they submit medical records yes they have an open file and they have to provide it i would say like every three months and system like checks whether you know there is still a note on file if not it takes off those you know do not collect check mark from the ground but still there is a problem and it's like i would say like five accounts from year to year and the like just look to the best practices in the industry and create something for ross which would work which will be aligned with religious nation and different kind of rules so that's something i'm working on greece shared with me story and and basically because they're the ultimate authority that sets the shot on policies and and so in many cases if we had folks that were in this particular category but were see aging like we have an aging do we follow it oh we do it i don't have it ok and i don't mean i just says that we don't have two things right we don't have an internal control system designed to provide for the preparation the financial statement so clearly that's something we need to look at r and also says if we don't have adequate design of internal control over significant accounts or processes that's the error matter you're talking about maria so when that when that speaks to that in terms of a deficiency and internal controls think we need to determine what is considered to be medical exam some what is not and i don't see the clarity that we're having you know like to all of our age receivables or only our medical right no not not ok to the receivables we can discuss it like when is a good time to implement it there's no procedure right now we need to work and i got approval to make it public like not t thick sheet and this one that's what i ran from the fina from my financial system so i can run the set of financials but the whole package just something which is final document ok we can i can do the same but i'm not sure we can discuss it with them obviously but i think this is just historical sentence which goes from year to year when we definitely couldn't run it from the old system because but we're going to work on a way to prepare our financial statements for the orders to review in order notwithstanding you know whatever to sort of template they want to put in to correct thank you ok so so for everyone's convenience instead of we definitely can go through the financial statement but i also prepared like a eight hundred sixty thousand kilowatt hours the other revenues increased by two two hundred twenty one thousand due to increased quantity of the insurance claims mutually and engineer our crews working on the capital construction related to the new substation so the part of the labor which used to be expands now is capital part so that in degrees is the distribution part for different kind of things to make sure that transparent in showing expansions and the right place so and by december related projects it's mostly like e we do that and if you can kind of like cannot it goes it falls into a different bucket comparing to the last year biggest now it's more clear and there are some other charges which we didn't have  before there is an increase of seventeen percent or six to seven thousand and outside services and consultants and that relates to the timing of the award at the expenses as well as increase of legal fees and his legal fees which falls on the same category there was a decrease of fifty one percent of fifteen thousand and use another general expenses again due to a change in accounting of general expenses so try just to show them in the that you're making here year to year which is helpful for sure particularly with utility where imagine things are relatively stable we have that said i imagine you're managing it against a budget to which you actually can work towards a budget and you have but could control through the budget but they bring it to us for comment we can comment we don't know but i think it's two things it's one what is in the budget i think to the indication of the myriad major execution to some degree is just like having the most and most cases that's explainable difference like when know what it is and what happened so yeah if it's interesting i mean i left out the operational observations component but that was one thing we've been talking about is at least from my standpoint some budget presentation ideas that i haven't and you know maybe add a little more detail to what's available for information yet i don't know how frequently this bo checks and i certainly will defer to historical approaches but just from an oversight perspective it's often nice to see you know poorly a couple times a year you know what were we projecting for much of perhaps one of the variances and you know what's the managerial context around the round sheet quickly but the only difference which you can see we again we have very very stable we have very consistent from year to year on the difference you can see that our total assets as well as our liabilities funds and the and the reason for that is the you know there's been a big disruption in the same time with the big distortion from the whole substation project over the last few years so it's really hard to yeah because it's such a large number that comes in and comes out never than golf all distorted ri so i don't know if you have questions about it we can go through this because that's what i want to mention that we have we made some changes to the reports of this in the you know when we're reporting this an amended report that we had trouble comparing apples to apples yes this is i mean that covers the energy component and there are still the short answer is yes it is apples to apples the only thing that would be different way so something we should change at the outset i don't necessarily think so because the energy is probably even more important comparison to past  i my preference would be don't code all of it and so perhaps it's worth pushing back a little bit to say you know we'd like to have a comprehensive how can we get a comprehensive view in the people i mean what's the number what's the deadline for us having t was saying so i'm trying to because this is a tool that we can use to try to you find out where the money goes and where it comes from a what's distorted compared to other towns and to help us zero in on this issue about the rates i don't know if anything is looking at this is answered any questions i guess the cost of service to the cost of service study and then i do think the tool that is missing is this essentially this binder that in a few months once you're settled that it sounds like there's a lot of data here there's also a lot of data provided by other means we could do a side by side comparison and they will actually guy able in these cases put belmont light side to side against the best other needs that  exist out there and let's see where we deviate from the norm and then standing identify opportunities for us to say why is that rational for me yeah i think we could ask that you take on at some point in the next thirty six months when appropriate and that's what i said before i got elected this is what i was trying to do when i went on line and pulled in a couple of other towns like concord some others and i could not figure out i could compare the others but i could not compare belmont to the others because the numbers are all laid out there rather we use yeah i could never figure out what belmont was trying to say that looking keenly at the rest of it kind of just like this is how much we make and and rakes in this is what we have implanted in this is what we pay for expenses but it's all kind of just chop differently in the budget and the thought of anyway so i don't know if you guys feel comfortable i do that what we're discussing well i guess i can say the same thing i said when we had this discussion of the board of selectmen when you're on a back i think it was april second and it was your last meeting we were over in the home or building which was that the we didn't include the like department in the open payments  money is there the money is safe in the account but we need flexibility due to the substation project work that's being done and once it's put no pep you can't take it out and so funding the opeth not being mandatory unlike the pension which we actually are funding that we did not want to open for the light department at this time we're also bringing chris on board we don't want to tie his hands by putting money into some pot you can't take it out of before he got his feet wet in the department and that we did the opeth for the water sewer enterprise as you wanted to do but we did not agree to do it for the light department for these reasons that i've stated and we do have an open plan and we're trying to stick to it and i understand that we can save money in the long run if we pay it all now i could save money my mortgage in the long run if i could pay it all now but i can't pay it all now so it's just sort of the way it happens i have unlimited money i pay off my mortgage but i don't so i like i think we discussed and voted it voted not to do that for the like department in april but we did vote to do it for water sewer which actually is in the budget for this y i raised this at the time when you were first came on and you say that's why it was i was done september because it's kind of tough to become it's like when the me immediately the chair or something and be we were chris was numb bored yet and it was a kind of a messy you know little transition period and we didn't want to rock the boat any more than we had to i'm fully willing to stay on i'm fully willing to not stay on and then you know that i'm sure this like will and to remain as chair i will do whatever you guys want to do but i don't want to i want to make it clear if you guys was just care of the white department and not sure this like when if i could give the like department a lot more attention and i was on the phone you know with craig a lot and it was sort of that was that was something i could really focus on the agendas running the meetings and it was good train be chair of the board of selectmen because i was getting used to being in the center chair so i just throw it out there is it's up it doesn't have to be we don't have to decide now like i said i've only been the chair of the light board since september first but i'm willing to let me ask a question time to get a lot of responsibility with a buil one things that we wanted to do it was like the cost of service to the customer satisfaction survey the purchase power policy hiring in general manager of a lot of the stuff we've done since september one that i kind of wanted to do we've kind of done so i'm ok with siri and i just double up and half a year you don't i'm you know we're going to go into the summer and things are going to ease up a little bit so it's not a big lift for me to wait till september but i'm happy to give it up at the moment so whatever you want to do i'm fine with i don't have any burning desire to be double twelfth executive i thought executive session second i was in favor so we are now caught up on our minutes all right so the next late board meeting i wanted to we're going to be talking about scheduling meetings in the  meeting next because now the tom tom board i think we need to just make sure that we have our schedules all set up and that we have our summer schedule set up and all of that because i think we have meeting set up at the moment through the end of like rather than a life where me and then the boys like me depends on the amount of i mean we try to cram in an hour here all business for the light forward for the entire month and sometimes i don't think that's enough well we've you should we've often had a lot idea of some items that are going on that agenda but if we have it down for five thirty in the time that you already have it on my thirty every have my calendar we have a board meeting that night yes i don't have a calendar and i for that so i delivered usually in paper form in advance and although it's just you know obviously of a transition so i think if you just do that i mean that could be great i mean i know that the town circulates star houses the binders for this like i mean if you want to that's my