the star spangled banner but also to recognize the old underwood pool and the hundred and two years of good times it provided to the residents of belmont just a few thank yous as well to the incredible the designer architect of the pool team and they help with and design the pool and i've done a lot of neighborhood input resident what kind of cool kind of programming that sort of thing we don't design the project what do the conservation commission  board board of health town meetings and i'm sure i'm leaving a number of them out and we went to the public for get exclusion involved we went back to town meeting town meeting approved it we went up to bid for a forward getting a  contractor and i'm sure you saw all the drama over the late summer early fall where we ended up with a contractor who said it was within our budget but he then backed out within our four hundred thousand dollars short for the next highest bidder and out through the gener thousand dollars to bridge the gap so we can hire new england builders who are you can see destroying the pool and respects artists really raimi are here from from me and we're really happy that they were able to help us out here but you probably don't know it was actually their bid was set to expire before we were able to raise the money and they generously kept their head open for an extended period of time to buy is the time to raise the form of thousand dollars about which we will be doing this right now so i really want to thank you in the this whole process we don't know if i say everybody on the planet or the board of phil shadetree committee conservation commission the store district commission the recreation department department of public works traffic advisory committee the school department the school committee  public safety committee we've talked to everybody throughout this process formally or informally to make sure that their voices were heard that the project would meet their needs but i think the neighbors your entire street school street i'm sorry i have to put up with a little bit of a noisy wager but i'm sure when this is over you'll be quite pleased with the results just keep reminding us of we're not done yet so i want to thank again the underwood family for the gracious donation this weekend all these years ago and go much know what it would speak to families generosity for future generations this does belmont for out in the issues if you see this messy are we going to see something great we hope to be open next summer i can't give you a perspective of time it depends upon the winter weather as you can to support everything that happens in the stern you know things like this don't happen too often so this is a real red letter day for the town of dogma to have or they have a great opening like this and we're just so proud to be part of it to a half of the underwood family pool described as a water hole and today it is literally home but it won't be that way for long the underwood pool holds a lot of special meaning for belmont and its residents it has and it has the historical distinction of being one of the oldest outdoor unicycle pulls in the country it also reminds us that the prominent underwood family has roots in belmont beyond that the pool holds special memories to many residents of belmont for one hundred years the film has brought people together children would swim and parents would socialize it's hard to believe that forty years ago i would ride my bike during the summer from waverley just swim here at the underwood told when school got out in june we were often sad that we wouldn't see our friends until the following september we didn't have play dates back then but sure enough we would see our friends throughout the summer here at the underwood tool more recently the pool has united the community with this incredible fundraising effort thank you to all who made this possible today i am happy and proud that our our grandchildren will be able to enjoy the same memories that many of us did when we were young here at the underwood pool thank you and a plan for apps to put a field year we were trying to find a field for the library they were supposed to move across the street and perhaps a pool frill that we're going to have a new one who would pull out replace the hundred year who have worked tirelessly to ensure the people open each season even after it exceeded its useful life these individuals include joseph