bikes and they were looking at how to make a more welcoming community to walk in and buy so they were looking at things like sidewalks they were looking at  destination for people to walk or bike to and in two thousand and six established a farmer's market which has just celebrated its tenets are season is still celebrated two more money days in two thousand accomplish that because of the ork that we have already been doing around food justice and around education since two thousand and ten we offer our snapshot purse a matching grant up to twenty five dollars per which we call them on a project in honor of the belmont town seal the first line of the belmont collaboratives mission statement is to promote the good health of the citizens of belmont and the surrounding communities because of this emphasis on health which had been implicit in our to fix but not explicit in twenty fourteen we wrote and were ordered to grant to create a food negativity policy council in the town of  decided to name that meanwhile the want and in which we promote knowledge of participation and access to healthy eating and activity for everyone in belmont in the long term our call this is to reduce the incidence of diseases caused by overweight obesity and activity such as diabetes heart disease stroke and high blood pressure we also aimed to prove quality of life by helping people to lead healthier more active lives some of our early activities have included a screening of the movie fed up with a panel discussion which we did last winter with sustainable belmont and the p t o p t a green team audience  we are we funded the crossing five program with the secrets to schools and sustainable belmont and we're eliminating conversations at high school with the food services director to begin offering for so we are in the process of conducting a needs assessment for about walking around healthy eating and activity and to that end we have a survey on our website belmont to have our which i hope you will if you haven't already fill out and go back and fill out a second time on behalf of any family members who can't do it themselves so we have some collimator of responses to the question if we could do one thing in belmont from the health of the residents of belmont what would it be and for food people talked about wanting to have good food that is fresh and healthy and they want to improve school lunches through  community path so in september we convene a group of leaders and stakeholders to talk about these questions bringing together representatives from the town government the schools and various community groups that ha outside and wall in terms of gaps people talked about bicycle safety particularly get in a bike through the underpass and development center and also the absence of an offer a path from about a month center to  past tale life so we're here today to carry on that conversation we're going to take the gaps in the areas that need to be improved upon and we're going to do some problem solving or we just try to come up with solutions for those issues so what we're going to do to start where this is have smaller discussions and they'll be two rounds of these small group discussions each of the eight topics we're going to address today will happen at one of the tables around the room and we're going to ask you to choose amongst them but they're all on the screen for the availability of more more fresh foods and then that would lead to where education for individuals and families and how to use seasonal produce and then also some cooking demos at farmers markets and other