board that's not a qualm so we don't have to be called to water or you don't have to be called water but we do know the agenda tonight is we're going to start very quickly with an executive session discussion  the salary for the manager of the like department and his salary last year had been one hundred twenty nine thousand dollars and important part of his salary compensation is a bonus program a bonus is paid against achievement of very specific goals and it was agreed to by the board that one hundred twenty nine dollars one hundred twenty five thousand dollars salary would be increased by a cost of living factor of one point two percent and a bonus of four thousand dollars against each events of its goals would also be paid that sally adjustment is retroactive to the date of the contract which evaluation and the report by mr richardson and the comments by the best electric light advisory board all contained in that document there were them there was a power supply that's a painting the electricity that we need a goal which was number one and the cost of obtaining that in the go shipping that our transmission system improvements i was  second gold a distribution system improvements were third goal environmental and safety issues were a fifth goal management organization in personnel succession planning was the fourth goal itself seven was a demand side management that is working with the amount of power that the residents and so forth use and the eighth call was professional development team has been working very hard on that is now going to be entering into a master's program nearly finished ok so all of those goals were better or progress was made towards intermediate progress was made toward a longer term goal and he got excellent reviews in all of those areas that it's not just that and again if anybody wants to see it it's available at the electric light department for review for good thank you very much to me and you should all your efforts and work and the light of the things working out the way they are so that's great ok the second item on the agenda was the fund that is the funding to oh well that's actually higher than but there's anyway that's way higher than the term actually what i'm suggesting is that you we take the the like department share of the total on a percentage basis as determined by and who determines the end you will required contributions that's the that's the actual report right we need we have some serious questions about the actual orders report for two thousand but if if you're in a position to fund it motion to appropriate amount recommended by gas b forty five actuarial opap scheduled to be credited in transferred as they did to the town by the government minister light departments opiate special purpose stabilization fund any one the report that we received is flawed in a number of ways and the truth is working to try to correct those flaws that number will come down all if we leave these bikes on so that we don't keep forgetting to turn them on and off how much background noise does that produce it's not too bad i'm going to try  prefer leaving them on it if it gets to be a hassle or you hear a lot of just wave your hands and we'll try and shut them off but i cause i think we're just going to keep forgetting to turn them on and off we we speak stuff ok so  k the next item on the engender is the transfer of the pilot payment from the electric light department to to the town this is a payment th by the elect like department to the town of belmont in lieu of taxes and there has been a formula developed which is based on percentage of the profit generated or six hundred fifty thousand whichever is greater it be as a profit number to you does anybody know we use the profit number i think last year was around four hundred thousand dollars or twenty five or  it's tempered and it's what fifty percent of that year that is right for last year profit number ok so if we use the zero eight but it's based on the zero seven number to begin with all right when i said last year i meant even the year before that ok i'm sorry i should have been clear so if we use the profit number it would be about six hundred twenty five the minimum of six fifty so you're going to do the six fifty well  higher time of use is another pricing signal and i just going to stray from the policy for a minute to over time of use pricing the wholesale cost of electricity varies i will buy our so the price of power is more expensive between node seven p m it's less expensive nights and weekends and traditionally utilities will smooth these price differences to an around the clock price just a  graph i put together to show the components of time of use the curves are our peak from two thousand and eight the blue components are the off peak and this is considered peak and i further broke that down into a shoulder period and you know a peak peak period of that redline is the price for a day of electricity and you can see it's lower five six in the morning three four o'clock in the afternoon when it's at its maximum and then it stops and starts dropping off about eight o'clock we want to try to discourage usage during the more expensive periods and i think this graph kind of illustrates where those periods are if i might give it interesting to do it with a substantial difference major if it goes for eighty dollars two hundred sixty so that's one hundred percent and that was this summer that's the day ahead market price but there is a considerable difference  that was in a day that was really noted for high prices so it's considerable and you know what is what is or what is or ever driven based on vary day to day in the past couple months now we're back down to where seventy five eighty dollars prices are are available around the clock so you know that with the median price around here of some of this were exposed to in the market it gets a little deeper than i think we want to get into here for this presentation but it's again i just want to show the distinction of the time we use electricity and  we want to provide the two kids furnish efficiency improvements very broad what we're trying to put out here again we want to have flexibility to adapt our programs as to respond to market conditions and customer demands but home energy audits targeted efficiency upgrades again communication education how can we help the homeowner how can we help the business how can we help the missile system reduce the usage consumption you know we should work with the disabled building managers to help them manage their building roads and to provide a technical resource for th again detailed energy usage of when they use an electricity how much they're using and if there's ways they can shift some of that load to off peak prices the effective management of belmont's peak these are things we can do to try to manage the peak usage of power we pay a capacity price to and star for thirteen a transmission we p any price to the market for the generators to have enough capacity online and there's things we can do if we can take loads shifted away from the peak period or to have voluntary reductions during those peak periods and just to show that graphically during a peak shaving operation we're looking at actually trying to cut that slice of usage rate out so the green shaded area on the top  through the voluntary reductions for cycling of air conditioners or some other type of load just shaving that right away for load shifting will be looking at  more targeting some of that energy usage and pulling it off to fill in this valley off peak when the price is a more reasonable load shifting is something we would look to be doing regularly every day we have this type of a price curve that type of a load curve so if we can shift at ames a drop it's going to be cheaper for us if it's cheaper for us it's cheaper for the customer where the peak is something we would do during those high demand periods  when you do the little shift of what sort of activity would be with something as simple as having the air dishwasher go on it three in the morning or five in the morning or maybe reasonably at six you know shift in the laundry from wednesday night to a saturday morning those type of activities will be low shifting and sort of thought is to do is to encourage  users to do that without a direct benefit but at some point possibly offering a director of the terms of what they pay for the power yes that would be and would be used to fit two components of that would be that we have to be that a meter their usage by those periods and it's going to be about one hundred hundred twenty dollars a meter to replace that there's another component to that of communicating to the meter that was in the slides that i sent the package but i didn't know that would want to get into that  one of the problems with the utilities bill i was that you get the ability you know two weeks after the of them off and it's too late to do anything about it we're working to provide better detail of your usage how do we give that to you how do we give you that price and know if it's going to be something that's being pushed regulatory really and we hear from our customers that they want to see that that we're talking about make a lot of sense but let's get some let's get some benchmarks or some timelines in the process ok that we say you know this is this is our hope that we would have you know we have the capability for building a kind of look at what the cost tradeoffs are for that's of a step or some to some specific times for doing that so that we don't have a general policy that doesn't have some you know milestones that will that work to us also you've got right now policy courage ng certain people who can do just for the degeneration here to operate on their own and off the grid basically there's that type of program is also where if we're reaching a peak where we could trigger that type of a signal to cycle offloads or shut down so low as to just hold belmont speed down either because where you don't have the questions relative to the license we do that because it would make it a lot easier now change starting in january good luck with the first one that comes up just come up with that one plus the four that you think you're going to need for the year if you need additional ones that fun and the fee will be fifty dollars times each one that you have it's just one thing just be aware if something happens during one of these events that all the board has to write the reserves the right to review the license to revoke future rights yes ok i wouldn't i'm not into the next level of sophistication did i think of perhaps i should say that the winner of the winning name was the beach or beach street center and under that belmont council on aging that's beach street center and under that belmont council on aging the other names that were considered were the center at belmont the not center counsel on a velma sr resource and recreation center the new belmont senior center the peach tree senior center with the town seal after the date and as i said winning think as many people vote have have an idea as to what they'd like to see my only concern with calling it a senior center or anything like this and the reason for moving this has been addressed is that you know a lot of people are concerned that if it was called the senior center they wouldn't deal with that was appropriate for them to be using it was talking so people that are in my age category that said i'm not going to see this i'm old enough to do that in fact they are  and so you know removing the reference to seniors this is this is one that i clearly would support and you know i guess i would have had a a short of having a name and something coming up with if anybody's out there has a million dollars and wants to make a donation that's the number that we agreed to a few years ago and if somebody would like to give us a million toward the construction of this we would accept it gladly and we can get you to call it whatever you want to call it so so that's that offer still out there but  it i very much like the name because it's a place name and happened last year i did a lot of research on someone folks a war one that was a very important area i had known more about that when i began to learn about location to the history of the town so i really like the fact that you place an emphasis on location its place in history also i think a lot of folks in belmont have a warm feeling about the kindle school when it was a school but also  gets it without an engine and put an electric the interesting thing that's happening right now is this part of the big bailout the seven hundred billion dollars it's almost hard to ponder how big a number that is that is part of that to make that deal happen lots of christmas presents were attached to that bill one of which was a christmas present for there were no leonard's industry which includes a tax credit starting january first two depending on the size of the vehicle up to seventy five hundred dollars per car so that would be for the consumer so that you know if you take twenty thousand dollars and you planning on a tax credit of three to seven thousand dollars it starts to become more economic provision in the law that is the police that the local police chief can designate roads which these can go and averse in addition to the limit of thirty five miles you can say well yeah sure the chairman yes just are we going this license we'll also have to do a motion to renew this license for next year because this is only in effect for both three and a half weeks and we have his renewal here also it's two separate tuesday i received notification from the middlesex district attorney's office that the department delmon placed bomb and along with a number of selected individuals and members of the department have been selected for this the nine eleven award which is given out to one of fifty four cities and towns within middlesex county in that award was given to the department in the members for their work on  a case i would risk domestic violence case that they're presently working on and the district attorney's office felt very strong about the case and felt that the officers involved collaboratively have worked very hard and very diligently on it and felt that they should be recognized as a result of it that is going to be taking place next thursday this thursday at four o'clock but the woman auditorium another point that i'd like to make is  worth mentioning was another one of our officers while on patrol back in the beginning of november i was listening to the paper radio system and heard a call from one of found p d advising that a man had fallen and the gentleman had fallen down in the face down on the sidewalk the officer responded to the scene because it was right around the corner saw the gentleman turn the gentleman over and started c p r variously brought the gentleman back to life the boston celtics recently i don't know if you're aware they do that there was among us program and they contacted him brought a maid and did a little speech take on it so again i just want to bring your attention to these matters mccue was the off server that the celtics recognized for his job as heroes a month and the odds of that were selected along with the department by the middlesex district attorney's office  in the department they've collaborated and worked very intensely on this situation to make sure it's been taking care of on there any issues tom with regard to any of these renewables you know mr chairman they are all here these could actually have been motions in writing right right  just i'd like to put in a word of thanks to send a car owner office for working with all the restaurants in the retail establish ments you share all the licensees have responded well in advance and were able to have these t eight thirty not nine so we scheduling is fine we are at the limit for writing restaurants we have eight licenses for that all of them there have been chosen we have one look a license for retail or call that's taken the only ones that would be oppose we do have one beer and wine retail left no one has applied for that it's remained open since the board i believe a year or two ago  offered them out in that's one is still open no one's applied for that and we still have one for all alcohol restaurant license still available but you don't need a minimum one hundred thirty seats no one has applied for that we have three of those and three  would talk to one point about the possibility of it including that i have made a disclosure in the sense that my son at some point maybe i'm just i'm one of those who are going to back away from that but i licensed under current conditions only one of them could have met the thirty nine c requirement two of them couldn't so the issues that you have at hand both the number of licenses available which at this point are not available and the other is the seat requirement the issue the one has here is the c requirement was not of a fear of the board of selectmen it is part of the home rule petition so if you wish to change the seat requirement you have to go through the town meeting legislation and i would believe also vote of the public of the voters because that's how you got the seat requirement was not an internal this decision committee was concerned about the size of the operation that would be having the number of seats in the business whether it might just be a small five or six or seven c so they thought thirty nine custom is to bring them here in the morning and so the question that is we're losing the licensing fee we're losing the controls that would come along with monitoring those those facilities if we allow them to get like a license as opposed to bringing with it so there's this ability for revisiting that what i'm suggesting is there fear that having only twenty five seats promote inappropriate users and it's nothing like that and has nothing to do that the only really feeling the one even economic the only fear was that the alcohol commission called group at the time they were doing it did not want all of the pizza expanded interest either that or the seats of the united states expanded so yes i just missed a class clarification if you look at that location the only new location new business was still hurt the other was may have changed names but there were might want to go to his facility so at that point we looked at it and said gee does it make sense to revisit that and either add license or change the seating because if you change the seating you will absolutely need more license difficult time they've made the one thirty but to reach one thirty and i do know stone her patty they made it but it difficult time reaching the thirty nine number so that has caused some issues with some restaurants getting  all right next item committee appointments conservation commission is a recommendation to add an associate member to the conservation commission  i have a question on  we we're trying to keep the size of the conservation commission to a reasonable number right so that's why we didn't appoint any alternate so i think one of them go to before the conservation commission i mean it is a room full of people have been you know if you've gone through that you know through those meetings and three to seven we currently have or three got three to seven we we currently have seven full members  if i was getting to start with a full with a with a new page right i would probably want to see the conservation commission no more than five members ok i have two alternates and have two alternates on top of that right so that you end up with seven in total as they fall off that we replace them with an alternate to get to seven that would be my preference i should try and should try to encourage folks who have technical expertise yes yes yes yes yes absolutely i agree with you i appreciate that point although i have to say i would like to qualify your position a little bit i think generally speaking you're right begin in that room hopefully within the next week or two where we get the generator for the whole building is being shipped this week so we'll begin the process over there  make sure they have it immediately to they will receive it tomorrow morning are so i've been as the board knows i've been working with the school superintendent search committee and had another meeting this evening before this it's been working well and we hope to have candidates to the school committee by the end of this month you know last is mr chairman is that i had submitted to the board this week be doing another spreadsheet about items of the board's interest in time dates and functions i s it was one of three attachments this other than me project yes yes no i like them ok i think it's very right time periodic lee we need to go through i mean next action do you know we've got someone here that go back for up right and as we completed they drop off so i know we're doing that but i think to make it a little bit better and the thing i'd like to do sort of stick in the sales action in the sales act section ok if it's something that's scheduled to be discussed at a selectmen is meeting like stuff that's on that list just put that noted name as well as the one that's in there and maybe just even justify that no to the rights of i can just look at and say you need to discuss there's been some communication back and forth between  are isolated in relative to the appeal that is being changed right but there are also some negotiations that we need to have with the developer relative to the i'm away ok and another of other open issues right that it kind of all tied together so can you explain to me what those are because i will be asking the mediator tomorrow you can have a broader discussion i would suspect  hundred thousand dollars and so we've sort of kept that out there and it's not good but that needs to get resolved ok they are also interested in having discussions with the town and with others if appropriate on making donations to the town in lieu of spending all of the money they're spending or if the time would agree to something and i'm not sure what that something might be an open discussion with this board is an open meeting ok to talk about what some of the options might be ok to try and get this thing resolved as opposed to spending over whatever period of time that is  so they have staining the court yes or do you see either of you see this is a parallel separate track that they're on the track they want to be on which is a very different interest i asked him but if we prevailed in this process that you're working on they would still have standing and they could move on with their particular there was a letter from a or an e mail from a resident relative to towns and road traffic and so forth we have referred that to the traffic advisory or is it at what point do you expect to get the answer back when we receive e mails from take action and not knowing that we've in fact received the e mail of doing something with us with an answer so i can interject for a moment at some point  because there were some e mails going back and forth relative to scheduling bigger meetings budget meetings going committee meetings etc i cool a little bit of a curveball in there because that was the discussion about possibly having a meeting of the twelve followed up by it work and be meeting on the fourteenth and i was originally scheduled to be away both of those states i learned today that i will not be away of those ok because i was going to be away and we were not going to be leaving the fright of the twelve that's correct i am now around the entire month of january and february so we can have meetings whenever we have them again so so when one does it makes sense to have meetings as it makes sense to go to the fifth and the twelfth and twenty sixth does it make sense to go for the let me pull up to the calendar here january i think the meeting of the twelve ought to be a dedicated budget meeting if that's what we're going to talk about and how we're going to move forward on the budget that's just us that would be just us just the board with whoever else wants to join us but because the one committee is going to be meeting on the fourteenth honestly whatever is the boy's pleasure paper we can meet on the fifth the twelfth of the twenty sixth right another wellington is on for the twenty six twenty six is booked all right answers to the twenty sixth is definitely a meeting right i the nineteenth we can't one but we could have one on the twelfth or the fifth those are available all right right right and then in february would have ever meeting on the second round of sixty right change was made for the january meeting that's done right and in march we're having a meeting on the ninth and we have one scheduled for the sixteenth but that's vacation week in much yes and no school vacations in february and april private schools are much less that's the one  and then april we were booked for the sixth and the twenty seventh but both of those one of them is town elections so we're going to have that on the sixth right and then the twentieth as patriots day and that school vacation week and then school vacation week and then the twenty seventh is tel meeting town meeting  wishes i was going to sketch this with you later scheduling if you'd rather just have extension morning meeting on flags with so you're not really limited by time we can do that during the day on a day also ok anybody wants to come to us with a recommendation we would certainly be willing to entertain it i expressed to those individuals the concerns that i had that i would feel would need to be addressed at any  appropriate channels to do that but that you know that we because we did not agree to deal with what i didn't say that no one is to interpret that because we did not agreed to just automatically say we will categorically you police officers in all cases does not mean that we're not willing to sit down and discuss those issues ok in the pros and cons of them and to make decisions that are appropriate for them erking committee jeff i got a number of calls from business is pushing square that are concerned about employee parking and the ability for employees to park around cushi are requirements to park and side streets and you know the limitations and so forth and one of the things that occurred to me as i was talking to this employee because i have to be standing in a location where i could see it is all down one street from the brigham's all the way down almost to the watertown line on the right hand side is filled with quote commuter parkers ok people that that you know drive to belmont park a car there belmont street starting from bergen on the right hand side ok it would seem to me that it might make sense and might be convenient for everybody and i would like somebody to set picky about that to make that street is out but the street is so we could make i think i would like somebody just look at what the issues that if the see if it makes sense to make that permit parking for you to residence only for residents and ok so it's not connected with the development of it that's a separate issue it's connected with that you know there was a meeting last week that the developer held to present his thoughts on where he was in the potential development that there was also discussion going on relative to the and would past and i think it's appropriate see if we could in some way recognize these kids for that substantial achievement so i don't know what the appropriate thing to do is here the school committee  this one particular road resident referred to as christmas lights but what ever costs associated with him and i think there are a couple of points that he could be made i think it just so the public is aware that the lights go on center for the most part are sponsored by the belmont to the business association and although the majority of the lights of they've all been converted to l e d and there are substantially lower cost than they've ever been in the past you just play there also some lights in waverly and pushing squares those are paid for by lunch at this point i am not under the impression that the whole center business soucy chastain for any life ok but some of them were paid by the maybe that's why i was confused some of them were paid by the like department some of them were paid for by the time is that correct ok but in any event they're all low energy lights and the cost for operating on them are fairly insignificant so ok but i just want this when you're ready case anything else come before the board before we move into executive session for the purposes of discussing