just to frame this for me and perhaps the audience so you understood so the point is that we had an agreement with the con which is with belmont a school in terms of electrical power to down the access road that it would be all underground crossing you were approached to to to provide access to the pole overground and overhead down the pole and then underground yes crossing party where you were you were approached by the contractor to do misunderstanding and perhaps in the contract as part of maybe there wasn't a misunderstanding to present to you that's inconsistent with what we as a town agreed to with them right plenty it's not really an agreement right it's an approved so i play with some conditions there are no conditions that concern the utilities crossing the road utilities crossing the road were never discussed during the during the flight plan meetings as far as i can recall there was plenty discussion of underground utilities along the access road and that's still the plan however when the contractor requested electrical service the proposal was to notes in the approved electrical plants which is ultimately what governs what we do on site that were submitted to the office committee development reviewed by one clancy and the building inspectors and also submitted to the planning department review before we were actually issued a permit i was a also in addition to the planning process a fairly lengthy process on our end to ensure that everybody within the office commute development from both the penny board side but also from the building side were comfortable with and the catch all there is these you know obviously we the designers do their best to translate everything that comes out of the twenty four decision into final construction documents which actually govern what happens on site and the catch all there is that when those documents are submitted to the town they're both reviewed by the building code zoning group as well as the planning board to make sure the job from going just one of the things just it's not a defensive position but just to clarify the question are gauge with damo light was was really simply to understand what the process would be around a project that can range from anything from you know which inspections they want to see on an underground utility to dock bang they do that nature and out of that we simply ask the question hey we'd like to coordinate with you underground it does not actually does not show the connection underground was shown to us no it shows an electrical line underground on the property doesn't show a connection at all it doesn't say where it's being connected to and every other pole every other property on that street is ill go whichever way my mind i go whichever way to end says there's no sense in hiring an outside consultant plans we have someone on staff or can do the very thing but it isn't us that much i do know so i don't know if there's anything based upon all that colloquy if there is anything else anybody wants to add please there's a microphone if you could get in line but keep in mind we are grossly behind schedule and i think i don't know what more we can do based on what we've said but i'll give you two minutes each go up and  monday per the approvals of the beaumont police department truck traffic edition and b b w because of the holidays and then is being closed off from seven to three thirty for the balance of the week is open one hundred percent of that time for local traffic and for emergency access they'll be particular week is that it is a week for school vacation is happening both for belmont day school but also for all the other schools in belmont when the public schools and so in terms of reducing traffic in trying to get that work done now with minimal an impact a neighborhood that's our best shot  anything for us to really vote on to this point i would ask if two things i guess one would be jeffrey if you could talk to glenn and just get it going to get craig and answer as to what the plane struck me three years ago and then you guys if you could just let us get that answer then i think  there's there's not an efficiency and cost to combine them and so from our perspective you know whether we do these projects five days and then another five days next week or it's five days and there's a two month break in the design if i had a project  for this like news rules we allow comments from residents not questions from residents it's not something like minutes comments from residents for two minutes each for a total of fifteen minutes total and down to state your name and address for the the road for a significant period of time and we went to the police department to get it approved plan so there was a plan in place for emergency vehicles and for local access that was approved from the police department  next week was chosen due to the fact it was vacationing week and they we were expecting a lower amount of traffic we were preparing to when we saw some of the e mails come through to use the elected board signs to stop putting those up up as well to notify the residents and then the other thing is we coordinated with national grid who is doing work on clifton that they would start work during that time next week to sue so wouldn't be that gap part of the town having all of that construction that's kind of where we ended up today there was a little confusion as to the light pole and how that fit into it because we were really just dealing with the drainage to shoot the d p w myself we were my recommendation would not be to go all of the night work because there is a possibility when this job takes place up there the drainage work that they could come across on blanche and you know as well as i do if they start to come across the ledge and you start drilling  i'd like to see it done during the week of vacation because i think it will cut back on a lot of complaints with the traffic and i did talk with the police chief the safa know he agrees also with this that and again i've talked to in traffic way back in january and he agreed with this also i think if you don't stop the drainage work and you try to combine the both jobs it's going to extend the time period we're think probably in that street there is probably going to be some type of legend that's st i don't know that for sure i can't say that for sure but all of our utilities to a certain drain stopped down  some way so that tells me that's for a reason this is a this is a forced man that comes out of somerset street this was put in by a private contractor comes down the sidewalk and  but it's a problem if they come across it i know they could do test it's not a if it's cost so you know and again if you if you cannot allow them to do night work it's going to it's going to be a we think about the comment that they made about that to a police versus one one would remove one of the letter or do they both the same time well i think it becomes a safety issue when you have two things going on at once it creates a safety issue now i don't know with that dept i haven't seen a lot of the plans but i don't know what the depth is going to be on the drainage so if they have to sure that so if there's going to be assuring a box in there and that they're going to be able to do the  trenching for the conduit for the electrical so two things at once sometimes creates a problem i think that's what charlotte was saying we had the light for really was that they didn't feel comfortable doing two trenches of the same room and when  we came on board and there were some planning board requirements around notification and really related to the commencement of construction activities and i was the three day notification which we complied with one of the other requirements in plenty more was that we establish a web site with belmont day school and we ultimately determine that that web site should be hosted on belmont day school's main you know site so that way the school has access to make updates regularly we were event such we also asked to do quarterly in person meetings and the idea was that the minutes from those quarterly meetings would be included on the website we've taken that quite a bit further in our six months on the job so we provide essentially weekly updates to belmont day school which they post on their website that has been live since november when we mobilized on the project and that has twenty sixth we held our fervid quarterly meeting and there were many members of this audience in attendance there and we talked about the strange connection we proposed it for april sixteenth at that time there were several questions one came from a particular incident don lemon a local access we responded at that time we did not have all of the approvals around the tours done at that moment so we didn't make it a but that was a discussion we had sixteenth was the week that we plan to do this work and that is that was finalized to make subsequent notification on the twenty sixth of march the school's head of school notified don leavitt who is the particular resident that was concerned on the fourth of april we went to  management committee for lone tree hill where this particular work was discussed with the members of that community on the tenth and we notified the commissioners of the cemetery commission that we would be proceeding with this work that would be you know me to provide that also on the time to be notified spencer goldberg at the office community page and also the town website so we've really we really have talked extensively about this in the goal of limiting these kind of concerns but also creating the space for people to reach out to us directly and share anything that they can start about the week  enough whether that whether it's accurate it's just a perceptible seemed to me that there's been some miscommunication or deficiency of the notice and really there's no real reason to shoot yourself in the foot if that's your case whether you've done it or not done it or whether you've done the minimum  other communities when if it's three hundred feet i go way beyond that just because i don't want to hear you want to so that's one great advantage of this website is that has all of our contact information that actually has been quite useful for a particular residence so they have a question about what's happening literally on site at that second that and that brings you to a page that provides status updates on a weekly basis and provides contact information for all of the key players myself included the superintendent from shawmut also corrado who is the director of operations it provides in this case that the tour plan is up perspective the more the more the merrier but part of our goal here in the reason why we have in person meetings and we've attended other public meetings and also the website is that we layer that level of communication whether it's a public website or it's a phone call to me and we try to make ourselves available on this particular issue has been talked about extensively but in the other thing is you know if you're if if if you're trying to see whether or not the light of the electricity goes underground or not well we can't go into that question right now without a plan so if to say doing both now you're moving we don't have an answer for that so it almost seems a little premature to say to do that as much as i would love to minimise and do it all the time i am concerned a about the safety concerns not of the contractor or the applicant or saying it but that for the town the same as well for the same reason the trenching close to each other one for so we're basically an hour exactly behind schedule so take your agendas at an hour of every item and we'll start with a discussion of the longboard this like meeting schedule for school debt exclusions this b got so what's up so we're talking the due date for a debt exclusion language it's august first so we need to look at your schedule going out to see when the best days are put the other discussions you want to have in the cards to this before that day that is not exactly the case secondly we cannot proceed with the oh by the citizens because this is a state election that we're requesting that you put this on there's a state requirement citizens will be voting on it the citizens could vote on a debt exclusion even before and you know there are towns that don't have to do that exclusions for these things and you know they are approve the money and the concept of the whole thing before it actually happens the m s p is nowhere on this happening in this in this water we will know in july what their tendency is going to be twenty third till tonight we don't meet again until five o'clock before the first session of town meeting april thirtieth so we could either take up the second i mean obviously segment is the small portion or no deal signet be in the budget items yet but we might want to think about whether hospitals a couple million square feet of space forty five buildings thereabouts and you head down today because of parking and such but i'm looking forward to this i've been a member of the national truck for trust for historic preservation for twenty years i love the character of belmont and i'm looking forward to taking some of these old beautiful the buildings even more beautiful that's great and there's a good back over there more immediate sort of concerns from a financial perspective that in conjunction with the khans group yes so i met with steve's relative the collins group and we're actually going to bring the financial force cast model to you on the twenty second hopefully the   forward based on some of that model and some what we're seeing being generated from it so it should be a good discussion on the device i do think so i think i accept that i'm very very supportive of that initiative i take it to critical for the three capital projects we have major capital project working group that's sort of already underway there so i think there's a few of these projects that may already be in the works and we can tap into that work it's been done and it's probably worth us looking through to figure out around education and perhaps tell government are there some other additional projects that we would like to kind of get going i think in time government i think that's the one area that i've said publicly that there are there are some recommendations that we we lead  we go with it i know there's been a lot of discussion in the community in regards to what could go there i know mark mark and i have had discussions with some other stakeholders some projects they go there so  it's really just a discussion of which way the board is thinking of going you know what i think we need to open up to the public and certainly i don't know you guys but i've had people come darkness hours and everything from solar farm skate park you know the dog park  and some people are going to get their way it would be good if we had a public meeting like we did with trash bring everybody into the one thing we have we do have like a quick ticking clock on this now that we took title we do have to actually do something and we have to cap it and we need to know what the post stabilization account after we take out seven hundred seventy thousand but we might be a little short so that's going to have to be a discussion as well because if you use all of the money to cap it you're not going to have anything left if you wanted to do a recreational type  discussion of this had to feel like we're meeting earlier this evening regarding the fact that the and i will summarize this so we can move forward is that the farmer's market is out there they use generators because there's no power of a power the gasoline and then they have they'll be a meter on it and it will be locked so that people can just drive up and charge the phone on it and it would just be for the farmer's market they would put up with a season ticket down the next season put it up and take it down a step or cetera and th the motion from the selectmen to do the same thing i will move that belmont light install a power plug for the farmer's market in the class put a lot of the two thousand and eighteen and i would say and  foundation and whereas treason forests are renewable natural resources which provide us with the timber for construction and furniture paper and chemical products electric energy fire for our hearths recreation  and whereas treason for some belmont reduce energy demands for heating cooling moderate the temperature clean the air remove carbon dioxide from the air produce oxygen and provide habitat for birds and other wildlife and whereas trees  town of belmont increase property value enhanced the economic vitality of business areas beautifier community and improve our quality of life and whereas trees wherever they are planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal now therefore we the board of selectmen declare friday april twenty seventh twenty eight team to be arbor day in the town of goma we urge the town's employees civic organizations clubs businesses and schools to join in a concerted effort to plant trees throughout the a document that the state has defined as the way that towns and cities can shape their future as tar is developing community or affordable housing and it's an important step in determining what we want to burdened that is to say paying more than thirty percent of the poor grantor for their homeownership expenses so we didn't chuck said go through a considerable  data analysis process with metro west collaborative developers of our partner in this and and did the analysis to show how much that need to exists and then started yes so there is a pair of new programs that the state has just announced and this funding what is called housing choices initiative and you can become a housing choice community and the other is called the planning for housing production now the planning for has in production seems to expect you to have a really concrete project already in the redevelopment process so we're not ready for that one but the housing choice initiative working together to find ways to you know stimulate that housing project yeah and i would add that you know it is definitely a community process that shows that we're all working together for it the request that the trust has for c k fund is through all of this to give the trust all right we'll take that there are some no good here at home bonnie freeman such as we should add that we've worked a lot with the league of women voters on that whole public process and hers and they've been they've been a wonderful partner as well putting more planning into the planning and we have begun to do that i think the first thing that coming out of that is the housing production plan and that's a place where the housing trust the board selectmen in the town will work on this but the planning board will have a very strong hand in this we are we liaison with them i know them i know people who work in and i think i think it's important and i think we need to move forward on it and we need to figure out the strategies are so so we will work with them on that one of the things that we have been doing in a moment i'll tell you what we're going to do for town fiscal task force group and i was a part of that you were in and my part of that ended up being in the report was brief but it was about self pleasantry and we've been trying to redevelop so pleasant street and increase the vitality studies that have been done but we still see the same kind of thing so i think that we're beginning to look at possibilities that are a little different kind of possibilities that have been looked  one of the issues that when they're in the system looking at this and you see this in the playing reports that have been done before are the constraints on development they are being beginning to take a look at what are the constraints in terms of zoning there and a lot of it's parking you know there are issues of size of issues of quality some looks like they're beginning to look at the ad so we're beginning to look at that things because you can say we want to bar you know like more retail what how do you how do you use your zoning and planning skills to encourage those things on the other things that's happening in waverly square is that we will see where those who are in particular will see  will have a project that's coming out of the ground that will be two mixed use buildings and they're going to be retail on the first floor they'll have ten units each of the floors above that in the king parcel we are also on so pleasant street there are as you know the owners of the property in that area have been in discussions and talking amongst themselves for the last several years the attention of the office of some of those sites  response to a developer with an idea or a project that i think i mean if if you if if you take a look at typically the way a lot of development happen you take a look at a box and in these other areas if you have if you have a place where you haven't been able to get development to go forward and you are you seeing demand that's coming from then you respond to the demand in this is a so i think this will be very specific in terms of so that's what we're doing of from going from a planning point of view and i think that's important not i think that's important at least the groundwork for us being able to respond in maybe be able to make some changes and it's possible in terms of the housing trust the addition with the housing trust in terms of talking about maybe what like people quickly square those moving forward the other important things that we have as we've had a longstanding discussion as jeffrey knows with the community about the general presence of it which was passed in two thousand and fourteen and amended in two thousand and fifteen one of the most important parts of that is the is the is is really amendment that said that all new construction of single family into family no generous district is by special which basically means that if you want to build a new single family house or two family house in the general residence district not only do you have to comply regulations which are a place but you basically have to test it with the planning board in terms of how well does it fit with the community and this is an important part of this is the part that's sun review as part of the special permit process which is open to the public conducted by the plain board we've had a number of cases that have come before us that we will show you in town meeting we think that the results of this process when you compare what happened before are positive you know i agree that's what's good you know there are two articles on the war and one of which is to get rid of the sunset provision and yes currently the first and the second is to tweak it to do what you're describing to fix some of the issues in t three there was the presentation and there was a very lengthy question and answer period i would say that some of the main concerns were obviously senior get a lot of senior showed up with their concerns about the  snow and j and mary beth and mike were keeping a list of concerns and issues they were encouraging residents to reach out to them with individual concerns and things like there was a house of worship a lot of people  crushing the churches and what would impact them so we met today myself j and my mary beth we met with some of the members of the houses of worship to try to figure out how to make it so they are not so impacted by this change we actually have come to an agreement you know and we will be issuing they're going to be taking that agreement and bring it to the best of the house of worship and then we'll be putting that agreement  with the other a couple things i have is we received an e mail i don't know if you received it in regards to the belmont farmer's market for dates that they were offering to have office hours or already signed up for mine but they sent it out to everybody to man the