thank you frank good evening everyone and welcome to the board of selectmen meeting for may sixth two thousand and fourteen before we get started i'd like to welcome our newly elected member david feldman congratulations david happy to have you with us and look forward to a good three years of working with you i look forward to it i'd also like to just mention mark sullivan and thank him for his service to the town many years of great service as chairman last year he accomplished a just one item we're going to be reviewing the collective bargaining agreement for the firefighters association local two to five two but we should pledge of allegiance first david you want to be the because there were a number of other issues we still want to get to and literally just so happened the first day i was on the shop were able to accomplish this so i'm really actually quite happy about that i'm glad we're able to do to get that done but the agreement is there is a good because it's and secondarily it addresses the educational systems piece which addressed a concern that the town had relative to the fact that firefighters were worse actually being paid overtime while they qualified for this sort of occasions each year that expense continues to rise over over time and as such this was an opportunity to address and issue that that the union wanted to upgrade the the the stipend itself and at the same time it was it we were able to address the need for no longer having to pay the  often the ambulance receipts given that you know that their account can you know more than handle can handle that so there's no impact of that incremental amount on the statements to the general fund i think that one of the thing i just want to mention too is that one thing that this contract also did was address the bi weekly pay issue it worries them all to the all the time you need units except the firefighters were actually in that city and that's an area where there was specific language in the firefighters agreement that so that we needed you want to thank bill you jumped on this like you said you first why first order of business during the executive sessions we've been updated so you know it's appropriate we're going to open session to sign it but randy thank you for keeping us updated a question from anything what is the estimated savings on the overtime about thirty four thousand that's what it's averaged over the last couple of years for the overtime for research occasion but as bill says that's a number that it grows we'll set a make a motion for the board of selectmen to accept the memorandum of agreement for the two thousand and thirteen fourteen collective bargaining agreement between the town of foxborough and the professional firefighters association two to five to one for the record it and i did i did what i would like to get a member of the board to serve so i'm not sure who would like to do that but i didn't just suggest a person so i want to give you the opportunity to talk amongst yourselves and you can perhaps decide that the next meeting on the thirteenth because we're not meeting again to the twentieth so at that point we can we can to so you can decide but i just want to give you a heads up before and i can explain to you just have that as an agenda item i'll do that i think a great part of the efforts that you guys are meeting recently well and he also recommended it to other members of his talk committee one serving as a alternate member and one that may serve on a regular basis because we want their input i mean we want to understand what their