understand this time mr kern has asked for the floor t tonight in advance of nomination papers being available next week so that those who may be interested in running can begin the process of running for the open sea i want you all to know that this was a decision taken lightly or quickly i've come to this conclusion after speaking with family friends and close associates and that this is an appropriate time for me to step away from the board i had a mentor a long time ago in my career tell me that knowing when to leave a job as often as important as so we should be missed but yes between now and may we have a lot of work to do so with that let's say when house has anything you'd like to say well move along with our agenda and see no one will move along we have a public hearing this evening on a bonefish grill discussion of the change of manager of record i see mr millet here as well after naming council and we have several people from the bonefish t got a continue went to florida got it got his license went to florida came back and they said it was a mistake you weren't charged with anything and it was the and they dismissed it so he thought  they said we made a mistake we should of thrown this away dismissed it they did at that point and he thought that that was it but now it's resolved and the process is going to go forward at the same time bonefish was opening in june everything was very hectic he was writing prodigious hours to get the restaurant to control and off to a good start and he didn't give this any further thought until november it came to his attention that this is not been resolved so tonight where and he's a qualified individual he's been in a restaurant business for like i said the ears he's been a manager in a license for several years he's never had a problem the incident in question seventeen years ago he straighten things out he's confusion of this other unrelated motor vehicle thing that he just thought that you not being familiar with the process he thought ok i want to quincy court and they finally dismissed it and he thought he was all set and somehow he thought that automatically was going to get everybody's attention so here we are tonight mr keefe is indicated that that he will run another cory which he has done i understand he need it but he needs the reconsideration form forty three requests for reconsideration submitted by the town before he can process the application again and what we're here tonight is to now and i hope you can understand why we needed to wait because we didn't have the information you're providing tonight and having a manager record that's filled all the requirements that's very important before we could bring  live with that motion and it looks like if i'm not mistaken almost everything has been approved except department approval k so so must the slot i suppose the only thing you know everyone makes mistakes sure that i read your letter i felt it was very heartfelt but we hope this won't happen again next year we may not be so nice next year i'm i don't think this is an issue about you know your personal reasons or anything else we just get to a point where we respond to the paperwork there are the people who want the license so budget process as we start up this month january is our busy month going to the budget so i thought we'll just kind of review where we are with the budget so i'll go through just kind of the overall budget areas give you a quick update on the meals tax and then  sometimes in the budget process certain groups or people like to focus just on one of these aspects with the operating budget or perhaps capital or particular reserve account but really the selection was to do to make sure that we're we're support operating budgets in total about fifty eight million dollars so sixty nine percent of our spending is in the us and your operating budget but there's a lot of other categories that we have to take care of and i'll go back to the items i was mentioning capital one point five million and then some of our operations into those reserve accounts of unfunded liabilities so our stabilization and i hope so a lot of areas that we need to address it in overall like when thousand dollars and again that is something we know we've already received from the county the health insurance increase right now is an extra seven percent that cost about three hundred fifty nine thousand do not know that yet we're just holding that as a place ok we're a long range planning this month opportunities to gradually increase this towards the goal it's hard to make a big leap we have so many things we're trying to so that the one hundred thousand dollars a year that change that kind of thing you know i think five years feels like a reasonable time to get there i also think it would be perceived positively because this  good to discuss that a little further no no you don't touch this one now but i mean we're at two point seven and you know i'd like to see that done ok but i think i just thank you maybe water you know i shouldn't say this without reading it but that's attention to that kind of comparable fee tail i think it would be interesting because you know one thing we pride ourselves in is that we were able to contract any growth in the budget in some cases zero increase in a couple of years in order to continue to provide the services that we wanted to in town throughout you know spel and schools and then we had a period of nice growth a little bit of catch up in some salaries but nonetheless continuing to sustain a high quality of services in the community and it would be nice to know if we're leading or lagging people we consider a peer group in that regard i mean we can have that answer now but that would be interesting to see too so maybe the budgets went up by two percent but the override allowed it to go up to five i can't i can't remember what those numbers were a back number here or a fool ok right in present when people pool their numeracy and isn't it true that some of the direct costs may lag the receipt of the revenue i mean i think for instance we might not know the full impact of school age children so we need to for the piece of new growth nine hundred twenty five thousand my thought is we might consider that same nine hundred twenty five in the next year's budget and put it aside in operating stabilization account where we could set it aside for potential school aged kids and i think we really have to be diligent about preserving that money in the event we needed if we end up not which would be a lovely outcome that we can use the money for another purpose but we could have that capacity on the so i want to go back to the four percent increase which is you know fairly generous we're talking about that being one and a half every one percent is five hundred eighty i just want to translate it into dollars i think it's twenty five but yeah i'm just trying to figure out how much money that gives us and you know when you think about if you want to try joe i don't i don't really i'm really even more processing it i'm just trying to figure out like how many f t's is that how many how many positions does that kind of increase give the municipal side in the schools  i mean i'm just thinking that it is after a few very lean years you know when no changes in staffing on the municipal side and the schools being very selective where they had growth it's understandable that two and a half is a sufficient but i think what you're saying in terms of almost by policy having that four percent as this is what we could do and handle going forward for the pursuable future anything above that really would need to have an override it's just hard to contemplate a very large growth and if we look at the history one year where there was you know the schools had waited a while they went for an overripe they were very thoughtful and they've lived with that for a long time that kind of growth is you just can't do it within a budget even with the universit and you don't do anything else with the resources i mean it goes back to the beginning we have to we have a lot of things we need to do to keep everything healthy the town physically in good shape you know everybody's getting the services that they community compact so i am somewhat about it and would like to see how it works a little bit before we jump in both when i went to the governor having his but i'm just there's when someone tells you something is too good to be true you need to be very leery and i think there's a lot of too good through here i think we have the benefit of time to pursue and i think we have i think it's really what are the benefits to come out of it but to be recognized through this i think would be a good feather in our cap you know we do a lot of things to uphold the strength of the community having a aaa bond rating as one of them being able to demonstrate these high standards with actions we've already taken or some it's not a bad thing to also strive to do more and if it's a tool to motivate like i hope people are really realizing something or else the state isn't coming through because it's been a way in place for a year and i know communities are just being told about it as the year went on but i am aware through my day job of others have signed up happy or go well i don't know what they've gotten and that's what i want to know but if they signed up then i'd like to i'd like to think that there's some evidence of how this is being  staffing and mass office of business development and mobility right business development yes and those people are well we've spent much of last year just getting up to speed and put it out there but not in a real proactive way so i think that's being demonstrated here yeah definitely some concentration but yeah because i want i'm going to make sure it was still available and the the application and everything still is very well for the past nine years at that time i don't remember meeting with him oh my god john hickey is suggested as an excellent candidate to fill the vacancy on the commission mistake he is moved to westwood in two thousand and seven we have resided on sexton averaging twenty six year old boys and a girl in a four year old boy john his wife love the community want to be actively involved john is so excited about this opportunity be pointed to the dedham west would want to commission i mean my feeling is the quality of the project is more important than the timing if there's a ranking we're not dealing with a school building where we have deadlines that impact operational matters i think the fire department is doing a great job making the temporary station work for them i commend them for that and we don't want it any longer than it needs to be but the quality having the right construction done is absolutely the most important thing and i would not put time pressure on it but quality pressure but i think that's exactly the prioriti ok so my get just so they have any penalties built in for you know completion date i don't have to are you exactly where they put it i do know that there yeah yeah let's not even go right to ben there tried that ok all right so moving along on the old business we have the repeat we have to repeat that the closing date for the two thousand and sixteen annual town meeting warrant will be on next meeting on january twentieth two thousand and sixteen we opened it on december seventh at our meeting then like to remind residents staff and committees that the warrant will be closed on next meeting a lot of calls must be submitted by them to be considered and there are several dates including the finance or warren commission arkell sponsor meetings and january as well as in march final hearings at the end of march and of course town elections on april twenty sixth in the annual town meeting on may second mr her and you just made the april twenty sixth date interesting having mistake i believe we could invite our commissioners in to give us a report ok last thing on our agenda the saving regular minutes of our meeting of december fourteen