apparently not was candid camera and i will be absent objection i will grant west cannot permission to record the meeting anyone else seeing as they're no we're going to move forward mr dr i'm going to let you do the production of actually ok so we did a little bit of a search for the last several weeks  perhaps their greatest resource right now she's our greatest resource so welcome to the board so i can and if there's anything we can do to help you in your service to us just let us after attempting was shut down several barrels with no result a decision was made to begin a long process to plug the line what began as a serious but manageable problem uncovered a very significant as it existing problem that the main gas line that serviced university ave park had not been properly maintained over the years a fact that even in star facials admitted to at the time and starfish indicated bird were they tended to replace the gas line with that in store was true to its commitment reconstruction of university ave is a significant element of the university park redevelopment plan and as these aspects of the process project advance to completion we want  express our continued appreciation for the professionalism of the star staff involved in the process the board is a token of appreciation from the town to present to the representatives they have been very helpful with the town and the university station development team and to thank you for the coordinated effort it was a bad situation even to go in december chief school where i'm sure you remember it well i remember talking to you about it your company faced up to its responsibilities and appointed members of the norfolk norfolk golf club would have directors and governors be approved and we have never had any problem with this license holder at all we have never had a problem despite questions from  record for that store is liquor license mr mclaughlin has been employed by roche brothers for over ten years at the will to live cation and the corporation voted on on her appointment on december third two thousand and fourteen necessary paperwork for the inspection in accordance with chapter three of four of the acts of two thousand and four for the calendar year two thousand and fourteen there had been no specific reported violations by the by the license holders and for calendar year two thousand and fourteen and if there's a question or a concern i'd like you to call for my book cafe deborah corporate chefs dunkin donuts four hundred washington street dunkin donuts one fifteen private providence highway westwood inc dunkin donuts two away providence highway high street dunkin donuts nine fifteen high street famous pizza on university westwood mercedes benz of westwood enterprise rent a car of boston three forty providence highway dollar baby junior providence highway precious metal metals reclaiming service to ninety restaurant audience site or three fifty five inch televisions and one hundred inch projector television it is planned that the televisions will operate daily and will the content will probably be sports primarily beef sports programming something that you know we didn't see it and we apologize for that but i also like to say that if if many if some of you have not been in before it is a family environment it's not a bar room there will be anything on the television really except for sports we all grow up playing sports we love for we will baseball that's what will be on the televisions all the time and we're just really happy to be in the town it's been a great reaction we've been here for about a week two weeks actually starting wednesday we picked a great spot we're it's a great community and i went to high school up the street here with a lot of family and friends that are in the surrounding towns and just really happy to be here oh i've won't i have a question for you and i think i know the answer most towns don't consider t v entertainment licenses do they and you were on the other stories i'm told that's correct so you probably didn't cross  no foul from my perspective at this point in time and i'm told once you were told you couldn't use them to shut them off so it's corrupt and it's too bad you probably missed some good games out there but having said that you know  i think in time we may even reconsider this or i might suggest just putting that out there but you know i can back to our days of being a dry town and very cautious in allowing restaurants to sell beer wine or alcohol and the next very slow step to going to retail so we're still we're still kind of new at the whole thing in that we want to make sure we do it really correctly and very strictly so it was never about not giving up but it really is about making sure we're compliant and we're consistent so that's really all so i'm thrilled you guys are here the college daughter came home today and the first thing she said was can wife mr wall extensive experience in elder protective services there's a law office represents seven protective service certain cases in handling those and they have filed proceedings and six different counties on behalf of seven elders this gives him a unique insight which would greatly help the county council anything else you'd like to add to this it would be really great to have legal counsel on the council on aging board there are times when we're not quite sure where those lines are and it's really great to have somebody that we can just call and say oh where is that line and i think it's really important that we have that and it would be great and i think he has three days right now and many nights she's there until seven or eight o'clock at night she's that car and i just don't think that is fair to her and one of the things i think the town of westwood has got to start to understand is that our population is aging and our the needs of the senior center and just going to continually grow right now we have four thousand eight hundred six people citizens in town that are over the age of fifty five out of a population of fourteen thousand and six hundred that's about thirty percent and that population just continues to grow their needs continue to grow and i always like to say there are three groups there's the younger seniors my middle seniors and my older seniors and they have different needs and karen is very good it's sort of getting into other fields distance in town we do all the food stamps in town we take care of so many issues at the senior center but also we take care of senior issues and her job is just continually growing the needs continually grow and we're requesting that she go from three days to four days but this fiscal year they will be no problem in terms of personnel budget because there's money in the personnel budget because pat had retired and that was at her grade and i'm at lower grade so we could use that money and there would be no change but i would request that if we show and i can show your stats of what she does if we continue to see this growth that this be a permanent solution meant to get her four days we'd like her monday tuesday thursday and friday and she would work like us eight to four and i can give us an idea of what she does she does nice assessments she helps with the tax worker program she does family support she does counseling she helps people figure out where to go for assisted living we're starting to put together the are you ok program she's going to head that up there are lots of things that i still want to do she's going to be in charge of the friendly visitor i see her position just incredible growth is very different and who knew i could become an expert on but i would like to think so well and he's wonderful team leader and for helping give us the learning curve on this because to be honest i don't know anything about this six weeks ago and now to and they want it and that's how i found out about it so i did some research and i spoke to people who actually you know we were talking about because i didn't and and it was going to cost us two thousand dollars to do the difference at that time a one time deal and it's a thirty six dollars a month cost for what we do now ok so but we are not connected which i couldn't understand and i do we are not connected in any way with the fire department the police department empties or anything and we transport a lot of people all day long in my former job we had it so that you just switched the not that we hardly i think we used it twice in the nine years i was there but you could just switch and you could get a channel immediately be in touch with emergency responders yes we have to use our cell phones in order to get in touch with emergency responders so manly when i found that out i was like ok we need to really look in this so what the town uses is something completely different and in order for us to do that it is very expensive it's sixteen thousand dollars and that's what we gave you i have all the information here but it's a one time cost and then the town owns it it's not a lease we own it and then we are in the same system as the fire the police the wrecked department the board of health everybody else we're all together we need to get an f c c license we need to get the equipment and then we're going we need to learn the system but it's pretty much the same system still a dispatch system so we come to you i went to mike with all of this this fell on my lap six weeks ago when i've done this as quickly as i could but the truth of the matter is we can still use the analog system throughout january it's not like it just won't be there will not support it but it still works it's just it will not be upgraded and if the system fails then we'll have to use cell phones if he said the quickest he could do it the biggest thing is getting the f c c the license that takes ten days that is the biggest thing after that he said he could set the system up in less than a week so  taking after i get approval from you tomorrow start the process if you will prove that i start the ice and it is if it's a lot of money i would start the process immediately and i think probably by early january it will be up and running suppose just has to be stationary in the van and it was going to stay in there i'm more worried about security and they are stationary in the band they are part of it but it's like or anything else they could could they rip iraq sure but it's like when you put in a radio system or both radio in your car you know it's underneath the dashboard it's not visible but if somebody really did we do lock up everything every night and they do go in the garage but can i guarantee that absolutely not  reimbursed at a later time help we don't like to take these mid year requests we usually like to try and fit them into the normal capital process and this is one that i think we're reacting appropriately to  sure this is ok so i'm just going to do a lead in to this since we were all at town meeting and had the successful votes for design funding for the inc station the new headquarters police station and i'm going study of the fire main station our consultants and staff and task force have continued their parties focusing on the design of the main station it's critical that we move this along as we are going to be at the main town meeting with bids in hand for the construction of the fire i'm sorry there that's the goal or we'll have a very close proximate cost for the construction of the station so i'm going to turn it over to building period that we're expecting to start in march which would then allow us to have been hand by the main town meeting so as nancy mentioned we've had one meeting with the planning board to review broad concepts for the station and as you know it's part of an overlay district so that particularly in gauged in how that building will set itself in that corner and we are going back to the planning board tomorrow to review sort of the feedback we took the feedback the consultant the architect took the feedback and have developed the concepts that you're going to see tonight that are the ones that we think address the comments the planning board made and we'll see tomorrow so with that i'm going to turn it over to don rafter who is the principal of dawran will be your architects and don can lead you through the design presentation for islam to station great thanks jim and just just so you know rick you're often with our project manager so that the leadership of the team here tonight so great introduction gives you an idea of the schedule and knowing that we're working to get bids in hand prior to the main town meeting we want to do is just quickly take you through site plan floor plans and building imagery as it's progressed since since town meeting and you know existing station is located approximately in the same location what's different is that this station is quite a bit bigger than the existing this location where we're showing a parking lot is actually where the current tennis court located that gives you a  sense of where things are the right field fence for little league is right here left field fence first softball is right here so what we've done is where we've created a three bed a fire station and you can see here in plan the three bays with the apparatus apron which leads you out into and onto washington and the streets we've tested it and the turning radius is a work for these vehicles safely out into the  public way we've also created a separate entrance off for fire personnel and for visitors there are currently eight spots located right here actually since our last meeting we're looking at a couple more spots for public parking out near the front here that have we were working quite quickly so we just haven't gotten there yet but that that's being discussed and being developed as we as we speak here tonight we've also created a drive around the back of additional parking and furniture potential training functions out in the back you can see in the back we have our support for the station chiller generator and transformer and trash so pretty confined space site but we're doing a electronics are located out here that has helped define where this building has been located so two story building with the main entrance located here with sidewalks connecting across to the apron in the  is there going to be screening around the chillers in the trash area yes i mean we haven't fully developed that yet but that's certainly being discussed part of the plan yes and you mentioned screen we're also talking about adding some additional fencing in the right field and left field of the soft right field a baseball left of the softball with some additional height to avoid vehicles being hit and we are aware that the building is actually in the softball field so we're going to try to remedy that also so moving into the first  with a transaction window sill visitors can come in and do business here but there also was good vision on to the apparatus bay in and we have immediate access into the apparatus room there's also a public toilet right off of that vestibule that's actually a great feature with the station we we see this in most all stations we do now the next room you see now is what's called a c b a self contained breathing apparatus basically oxygen tanks  the dirty restroom so if you come back from a call you can come in and utilize this space without going into the rest of the operations essentially the clean side of the station and then down the bottom here is what we call the turnout gear room which is where of the equipment that firefighters wear on to a call will be stored when it's not on the floor and prepare in preparation for a call for someone who is on duty on a chemical space shop and tools called out on a call but we've also and you can just make out here to bollards there's also a fire pole that comes down from above here so we have essentially three ways to get down from above here there are also four dorm spaces located on this side of the building with two of them two of them large enough so you could actually two bunks in each so there is some growth capabilities within this building toilets and showers in support of domestic laundry and then this back portion of the station has a basically a day room also acts as a training room a kitchen and dining area of located  be very noticeable as a fire station but also may help set the tone for future development there so we went with a new angle for nakheel are trying to break up the scale by having you can see  this brown down the bottom is a brick which runs on a building with clapboard above and some dormers that actually help to break up some of the the expanse of this roof and also help to divert water and snow so they wouldn't just drop down  height differential from that dormer to what the peak is at the current station this would be lower right now by how much gosh i'm not positive but i do know if  back you can see the height of the space here versus in those doors i believe are twelve feet high are our doors are fourteen feet high so it is it is quite a bit that's the height of the gas is in we can confirm this for you they guess it's probably somewhere around twenty five feet to the peak of the so there's the ultimate differential between the peak of what's down there to the peak of the tower it's almost twice as high to the tower yes ok and to be peak of that second building what i call it it's that's how high that's forty three feet forty four ok and then six feet where is that this this roof now what what what's important you'll see it in the three d imagery here in a minute is that these gray areas that you see here these are actually roofs that are pitching back away also so they're not right in your face or actually sloping away from the front of the building will be back quite a distance from the face of the building as you see it in three dimensions so just to quickly take you around this is view again here's your apparatus bay doors your front door there's a tower top we're just talking about you can see the sloping roof is what we call it because it's pitching in two directions up sloping back to that line that you're seeing in elevation back to this point that you're seeing a elevation and then to the the top of the tower so all all pitching away from the street side to the building it's occurring that way back down to more of a ground view taken close but i will say before you do make comments we presented to the planning board this has been two weeks ago now with something that was a little bit different in the same general idea but we've worked to refine the imagery based upon feedback from the planning board from nor the town planner from the from the task force and working with staff from the fire department so we're pleased with the direction because it's actually come a long way from where it was just two weeks ago i just want to comment in that back corner over by the ball field there were some window additions that you're going to look into we have not been put off yes we'll have those for tomorrow night you're still refining absolutely things a little bit here and they are maybe  the tower we're playing with that some of the portions of the tower also absolutely right and we're trying to maintain that residential feel upstairs because that really is what's happening up there really are the living quarters and i think  to make it fit because again we're on a very very tight building for a minute i have a lot we can't expand oh we've got we've got to work with and you know some give and take along the way but  architectural team and other consultants are valuating different recommendations or suggestions and they'll be coming back to the task force with that and then in turn coming before us in january is something that will be  topic in another time so just for perspective this is just what we think the station should look like in the corner and here's how the programming interior ok so we're not we haven't even gotten to the perspective why you might like it is there any concern with that softball field i mean it's not a big poke you mean i probably can't get their name weber back in the day i think i probably  could actually adding a secondary fence has more height to it to keep any balls from coming onto bio highs and things going to be we haven't calculated it yet i mean is it going to be a hard fence or is it going to be a saw fence that we can right and that has not been determined yet either i think that's a wise move because i think it is tight and there are some if i may use my baseball language there are some guys that can still rake hundred handling units up there so they don't have to be rooftop mounted so you basically take what would be something that would be constantly in the rather than your bring it inside so it's in a condition space and extends the life ex as much space as you can build it gets that's right and that goes for my house as well ok well i think it i am much like the chief i am probably not the person you want to talk to about architectural things but i think this would look good interesting to insana i think it i'm more concerned that the chief tells me playoff is designed so there's community so hopefully those connections will get me would actually spend more time still i think that's that's like the beginning of fortune or are enjoying a conversation with john rogers last week don is a sign of mocking susan rogers longstanding residents of the community he was born and raised here went to school here was a member of the a good portion of his time out in the far west in the washington area in storm water management but he also does asset management as well he's worked for many years for to work around the development around some of those wetlands out there so having some experience with that massachusetts i think is is just experience that we're lucky to have mr ben i see mr barry walked in would you agree any objection motion carries unanimously mr joyce i believe we're onto appointment of a veterans agent yes as a board no sir i've been trying to find a way to  yeah but i'd like to appoint him to the memorial day parade committee so i'd like to do that as kind of a secondary step to this if there's no objection with my fellow member questions comments from the brown about an appointment of a veterans objections or abstention motion carries unanimously ok well we may actually get through this tonight i knew we could do it  for these bed we do anticipate the things we need to be graded and some of them will become it will become aware of specially during the winter months and use a technology is the same we have some computers are need to be replaced but as time goes on that we make it self aware and the school rule face what we have told and an odd leaks out in various schools in various locations that they're endeavoring to plug up and again that will three eagle scouts the families of the boys of scout troop three west would would like to invite all of us to attend the eagle court of honor for the three new eagle scouts at that time the sermon who begin at two p at the first papped baptist church will be followed by a reception and fellowship hall attached the church to three individuals or janet daniel devoid a distinguished leader in troop three including time as senior patrol leader assistant patrol leader and chaplains aide down represented the troop as part of the boston contingent at the national scout jamboree in westwood virginia until doesn't thirteen dan's eagle project included construction of an outdoor outdoor stairs in a russian control of membership beach at hale he graduated from westwood high and he's a freshman at embry riddle aeronautical university studying aviation andrew feeney has been a leader in troop three serving as patrol leader assistant patrol leader scribe and then chief he restored were placed in repair of the civil war headstones in the west would town cemetery for his eagle scout project he's a graduate in two thousand and fourteen graduate of westwood high and is a freshman at franklin pier service patrol leader quartermaster den leader for his eagle scout project he directed an effort to controlled an invasive plants species around the park upon park pond in blue hills he's also a two thousand and fourteen graduate so at least two of us will be there maybe three of us to show our support and graduate these three young men who are now college men are coming back to get their eagle scout so side i guess i'm in favor of them and everyone was properly notified of this let me make sure the record clear far what we've got are all two different things to different motions here the first motion and i assume have this in your packages if you don't think you know certainly provide it to you but the first motion is on an order of taking my eminent domain and laying out of town ways this was authorized last month's town meeting and it's for three very small easements down a university station along university unanimously do you want us to sign now ok those we need special targets for the don't put those away  and it's basically just continuing as a public way the ball would be at the end of rosemont when rosemont was created it was a dead end street so you have  owner of rosemont of national development and he is trying to reposition that building and they want to do some improvements in front and in order to do those improvements without variances they need to have this no longer in this area no long used as a public way discontinued so the public way ends to still public way with plenty of access in front of the building but the town would no longer have any rights in this area and maybe the most one point in brookline related to the chestnut hill redevelopment work i've taken those examples and amplified on the agreement that was provided to us you know those examples gave the towns more rights and what we've done is revise it sent it back to nonstop for there were if you want comment basically mascot has agreed to in other towns which is that the towns control the signals but that any changes to timing do have to be reviewed and approved by mouse dot you know and they have to be supported by  traffic studies and the like what happens if we have a co e you probably have a meeting with your traffic experts people trying to work it out what if they're not able to r concern and i talked with them directly is as expressed is really making sure that the signal timing does not result in a back up on the state highway well we have no so so you used examples where they were far more reasonable than they were being initially in their discussion with us yes and you produced it for them and were waiting for their feedback waiting for their fee let's see what they say at work you know that's a nice piece of work i don't think there's any need to save a rattle at this point in time should reflect that yes you have a second so a motion for approval with that amendment we have a motion to second all those in favor please signify by session to discuss three issues two issues related to potential litigation and one issue related to an employment contract discussing these in public session would have a detrimental effect on the position of governing body that thus if the discussions were held in open session the board will not be returning to open session and i believe our next meeting is scheduled for january twelfth here at seven thirty pm so before i take a motion i would like to be half of the board of selectmen wish everyone a healthy and happy holiday seat and safe holiday season may have a great time with i we are going into executive session and we will not be coming back thank you