to welcome you officially to the one hundredth anniversary of the belmont media center  right on earth would make you think it's been a hundred years to come on well have tied show has been on a long time right yeah yeah not quite that long no jeff  twenty one years but not down one hundred that's yet i don't think there was a video back under years ago talking about television talk about the media center ok ok ed i'm sorry it's the tenth year tenth anniversary thank you  years ago the term selfie just wasn't even commonly used at all in fact thinking back to two thousand and five which whole ten years ago i know walk one of the things back in two thousand and five was still considered a planet as a matter of fact oh yes look at that there yeah no spacecraft has made any visits there until this past summer so that certainly was the case what else was going on back in two thousand and five think hero we had time off for sports talk  we were on for eleven years we had our eleventh anniversary that year all right you know what else we were doing in two thousand and five were still getting used to saying boston red sox world series champions because it had only been a year since they had done that before that  had waited eighty six long years you know they were getting used to in two thousand and five a saying the patriots win the super bowl oh well i guess some things haven't changed a whole lot in ten years we're still saying that now certainly but it's amazing when you think about it though i were no smartphones no twitter i mean a whole lot of things two thousand years ago this is how we recorded television programs right there that's me today what are we doing tied to ten years later ten years later oh i know what we have that yeah it looks much shorter yeah i do a lot slower that's well so that this meeting doesn't last one hundred years let's move on with it sounds like a good idea yeah let's we will keep things moving along we'd like to appointee representing the interests of the of the town on the d n c and i'm delighted to be able to do that and i'm susie spiny i have served on the board for i don't know a long time i think like six or seven or eight years something like that jeff where did you go but i'm completing my last term on the board well jeff todd and joe and i are a tough act to follow so i'm not going to follow them belmont media center congratulations on your tenth year anniversary serving belmont residents i'm here on behalf of the board of selectmen in the town of belmont i'd also like to introduce mark palermo vice chair of the board of selectmen who is joining them joining us here tonight as well belmont media center you have indeed provided a valuable community service over the last ten years by providing wonderful educational programming and coverage of government board and committee meetings this increases transparency and resident confidence in its town government coinciding with your tenth year anniversary is the ten year renewal of the town's cable television license agreements we were successful in renewing our cable license for an additional ten years with comcast last spring i thank members of the cable television advisory committee who i have seen here tonight for their work on this we are now beginning our negotiations with horizon there will be a cable license public ascertainment hearing before the board of selectmen on monday nov ninth two thousand and fifteen at seven thirty pm at the board of select n meeting room i encourage all belmont residents to attend the hearing and provide their suggestions as we enter into our negotiations with arise in belmont media has also provided an online survey about your view about your horizon service i encourage you to compete to complete the survey because your comments will enable us to negotiate a better license agreement with the horizon chet messer will provide more information about that in a few moments lastly i want to thank jeff and belmont media's meat media center staff for all their hard work jeff everyone seen you ok you will forever be a member of the staff hall ok lastly on behalf of the board of selectmen and the town of belmont i am pleased to provide belmont media center with a proclamation honoring your ten years of service and i'm going to read it whereas the belmont media center is a nonprofit community media center whose mission is to develop and promote access to electronic communications media and where as b m c has provided belmont residents local institutions and the town of belmont with access to training technology and program transmission over three local access t v channels where the organization is so successful in large part due to the tireless leadership of executive director jeff hansen as well as the volunteer members of the b m c board of directors both past and present and where as in addition to these individuals countless members of the b m c s professional staff and volunteers from the belmont community have passionately supported this institution and where as it is a tribute to the hard work of those with the b m c in two thousand and fifteen they are marking the ten year anniversary of their service to the residents and community members of the town of belmont whereas it is the hope of the board of selectmen that this is the first of many anniversary celebrations for the belmont media center and that they will continue to be successful in their mission of developing and promoting access to electronic communications media to the residents of the town of belmont now therefore be it resolved that the board of selectmen of the town of belmont congratulate belmont media center on their tenth anniversary and wish them the best of luck for continued success board of selectmen sammy  baghdadi chair marc a polo vice chair and james r williams selectman thank you is has been around the media center for some time and produces and co hosts his own show office hours with brownsburg or co hosted by monica collins well i won't repeat all of what sammy said but i strongly endorse his comments which were well put together and very much on point i i do bring a citation from the massachusetts state senate congratulating the belmont media center on its tenth anniversary is about valued part of the belmont community and extending its best wishes for the continued success of the media center and signed by the senate president and the clerk of the senate and by myself  i would just only like to add my really heartfelt salute to the board members of the media center i mean the founding board members who got this thing off the ground the sustaining board members who are carrying the torch and keeping this institution  moving jeff hansell you know who's really built something here i mean i think you know i think of how i got involved because jeff you know reached out to sources you know want to do this and i'm sure he said that to you know dozens of people across the community you know why don't you come in and use this resource why don't you come in and make something and he's he's brought a lot of people in and and created what what the vibrancy that really the media center is and you couldn't do it without the really dedicated permanent staff and volunteers of the media center who do a great job and i really want to salute all of you for what you've done over the past ten years and for what you continue to do and what i know you will do over the years to come thank you for thank you for having you today well good evening everyone thank you and this is an extraordinary evening and i'm really glad to be here with all of you i want to congratulate the media center on ten years the board the staff volunteers and  and although you introduce me so kindly to say that i produce my show in fact while the entire staff is extraordinary i really want to single out julie to stefano who's been so extraordinarily helpful to me and  and usually have two or three people one on the camera one in the control room i went to film my show last week and julie ran the entire show by ourselves so that was pretty cool and so this is wonderful it's an extraordinary event and i  tell you for a town of twenty four twenty five thousand people to have this resource is just extraordinary the depth and breadth of the content that the the christmas show holiday show it's be it hereby known to all that the massachusetts house of representatives offers its sincere asst congratulations to the belmont media center in recognition of belmont media centers tenth anniversary and its many outstanding and distinguish contributions to the town of belmont as an important source of information and is a truly unique community hub so it's great to be here congratulations  thanks thank you and thank you so much for having me here tonight it's really a pleasure to be here with my colleagues said in a brownsburg representative rogers our chief so many of our neighbors community leave my real neighbors because belmont is my home and when i was talking to jeff it seems like a very long time ago is when we still had snow on the ground about tonight there were really three things that i thought were very important about this the first was in thinking about the ten years just remembering where this started with a media center starting when i was a tiny little splays the space down at the high school and how it has grown to really this state of the art facility they can do so many amazing things and you know that was really jeff's vision and what's interesting about that is i read recently that the b which is the largest news organization in the world realized what so many of us know which is there is now an endless market for news so many ways on your phone everywhere to get information and that it really has caused a decline in many of the traditional ways that information was disseminated everyone knows newspaper readership is down regular network news broadcasts have  populations that watch them and so the b b c wanted to know what it needed to do to be relevant in the news field in twenty years so they commissioned a massive survey and the results of that survey were what we have here because what they learned was what people most care about and have a most abiding appetite for is a local news that what people really will always go to with the stories about their kids their neighbors what's going to happen in their town with their tax bill or their cable provision whatever it is that that at the end of the day is what people have a real interest in and that is what the media center really brings as we look at we have people are getting that kind of news when they're watching meetings where they're learning all kinds of safety information information about education it is from these programs so so far ahead of what it probably cost the b b c many many dollars to find out we new here in belmont and the second piece is in this is why particularly why i'm happy to be here with my colleagues from government tonight is that one of the things that has become very clear to all of us is that we work hard representing our constituents we do things that affect people's lives in very important ways but in very significant ways that doesn't matter if people don't know about what we're doing if they don't understand what we're doing why we're doing it what the constraints are on what we do so very much like their colonial forefathers would have gathered in belmont center with the town cri to hear the information to understand about the news it is true that the media center serves that same function it takes all of what we do and i think probably all of us here who are in government now have shows or have done shows on the media center and we bring home to the people who elect us who send us off to do their work what it is that we've done we explain it we make it relevant and we really help people to have an understanding and a trust in what is happening on their behalf one of the things that the b b c study spoke of is  in a democracy the most essential piece of public service is the distribution of news so that people know what's happening they can play in they can make decisions about their future and they can make decisions about who's representing them you know as senator bradley's progress said one of the nicest things for me when i became the district attorney was the jeff immediately reached out and said the district attorney's office especially a large office like middlesex with fifty four cities and towns does so many things is involved in so many parts of people's lives why don't you come on the station come to the media center do a show and tell people about that and we've been able to do that in many occasions the chief has joined us so many experts in different fields as we've talked about opioids about keeping kids safe about elders keeping our seniors safe elder scams all of those things that we've been able to do that because the media center is here and they let us have that opportunity and the third piece that's important about the media center is and i'm very happy tonight and to be sharing this program with andrew feldman who's a perfect example of this is the learning piece the piece that not only serves the community but actually increases the skills of people in the community and i am fascinated every time i am at the media center and how many people are there and learning taking advantage of the state of the art equipment the opportunity they have to pursue their own interests and bring that to the screen i've been at the media center when they are been lots of high school kids they're already know how to do everything but edges it's easy and they're doing it in they're creating things and you know i was great believer that school is about learning but one of the things you should be learning is how to be a good citizen that's an important piece and when students are at the media center and they're helping to do whether it's my show or one of my colleagues shows they're learning something about more than just the technical piece they are learning about their society their learning about their government and how it is that we all give back i've been at the center when so many folks from the senior center have been there in producing a show and i who have trouble with my smartphone am completely fascinated by the level of skill that they have and i will point out that when i am there and the senior center representatives are there the brownies are much better much better so i tried to occasion my going to coincide with that but that is that is you know we are very fortunate particularly middlesex county across the county we have a population of seniors and i don't want to frighten anyone but that is anyone over the age of sixty who in able to age in their community that is approximately fifteen percent higher than the rest of the state and that's a wonderful thing but it's only a wonderful thing if you not only can stay in the community but if you can be involved and to be at the media center and to see people who are now retired now have the time to be doing those things is an amazing amazing foreshadowing of what the next chapter of life can be like so in the media center brings that all to us so jeff in his vision from ten years ago and i can remember being down there and talking about how it would all be different in someday we would have all the equipment and all of the things that we do was really very much a man ahead of him to his time to whom we owe a great debt the staff our folks that really not only do a job but are doing it essential public service and we owe them a debt as well so it is really my great pleasure to be here tonight to help to join in this celebration which i'm sure you'll agree i promise jeff when he first talked about this this would in fact be a great party if nothing else so i'm really delighted to have joined you tonight i congratulate jeff i congratulate the staff and all of you who've helped to make the media center such an important part of belmont thank you ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen now the biggest star in the d m z universe approaching the stage right now the one be only  well thank you jeff you know again i say we were saying earlier back in two thousand and five couldn't do this and i need to do it right now because in fact actually up to a year ago i couldn't do this because i didn't have a smartphone but i do now  all right well as i mentioned earlier a longtime producer and co host of time out for sports talk some time for a sports update the patriots and dolphins are about to kick off at the bottom of the hour as you know and louis is active for tonight's game so anyone who's concerned there you go there is your update all right well actually that's not the real reason i came up here i'm actually here to introduce the next portion of tonight's annual meeting as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the belmont media center and how  c memories well it's the media center about a video that would seem appropriate right so ladies and gentlemen this time we ask that you sit back now that you've all enjoyed your dinner and enjoy this video rest retrospective that's been produced today edited by one time d m c member lucas trados lucas has both figuratively and literally grown up at the b and c former b m c volunteer of the year recipient he's also been in turn major contributor b m c sports coverage and of importance to me a very valuable crew member a time out for sports talk so and gentleman ten years of the belmont media center glad to be with you here i'm a time out for sports talk at the belmont media center where we continue to be belmont's first and only live all sports talk show we found out that a lot of the meetings were covered but none of them some of them were not actually being recorded and so we introduced the idea of pressing record and we actually recorded the meetings and that's julie first time ye she when we were in the one room schoolhouse in one room studio stacy invited the whole neighborhood in and we did this this class it was a lot of fun as a lot of chaos but it was a great deal of fun and then we also did the spelling bee which yeah again back to julie she's been covering it for ten years in a row it's a six hour seven hour event on a saturday and it's probably the most popular event we do a vols about fifteen hundred people from belmont and the main route one of the main reasons two thousand and nine big move from the studio at belmont high school to a new facility right at night lights and street in the heart of waverly swear i was before that was after the next picture looking out of the front door and now the our gallery and you have the skylights which were donated to our facility and thanks to the great thinking of myron casa robert he figured out a way that we could actually make him give us some daylight in the studio that's after and i  on oh yes yeah well two thousand and ten the you know the belmont the food pantry of course the mc in conjunction with the belmont citizen harold helped put this together to benefit the the belmont food pantry this is kind of like all worlds not too far down the road be glad to be a part of that i'm a big fan of live television can't get enough of it five hours that's fight sign me up that we go twelve hours maybe we'll expand this year and we'll really we can't get enough of  the next and then one of our most interesting shows science for the public that show is now being distributed by double to be h on their forum network it's an amazing show it's real science for real people and  p i don't think she's here tonight but she does it all every two weeks produces a new program with a claim scientists from all over the world it's a great show yet it's on with the souls on the website right that's fantastic of course we told you about the vein on earlier talking about that there it is and let me do a shout out here to our designer who actually started with us ten years ago and he's still here he's still putting up with us design to go for and i was on vacation and we're showing strangers on the street which design do you like and phone it back in but we finally did figure that out well kim i don't rate we couldn't do the sports coverage without it's for sure and then and then the what the mass flash film festival right this is the big event that just started right here to be mc yeah thanks to adam dusenberry it's a statewide film festival and this year we had more belmont involvement than we've had in previous years  we had a student walk into our studio ten years ago at the recommendation of his teachers he told me that he was having trouble in school was having trouble some of his subjects but he knew a lot about me it was interested in media we  in and he never left except when he graduated with honors and went on to george washington university he's now a political strategist in d c and was recently chosen as one of the top ten rising stars in political communications he worked on the vice president biden campaign at one point and he came back here to speak to us a little bit about his experience of dominant media so here's a ten year project andrew feldman well thank you thank you jeff thank you all for being here this is you know really really exciting i didn't really know what i was getting into coming here tonight and you know it's been a while i haven't i kind of taken a hiatus probably about seven i was trying to think about when our last show was and i got us talking to a friend this morning who who was upon other political in massachusetts who now moved to new york but he said to me hey i remember you took me that studio and we did some show and that was the first and only time we did a show in the in the new media center show it must have been in two thousand and nine but you know really two thousand and seven was the last time that i really was an active you know weekly  producer at the show but look it's fantastic what is going on here and all that has happened and the growth and it i would i was thinking about what i was going to talk about i it all comes down to one word that i think resonates through from when you know this was starting ten years ago and now and that's that's opportunity that is there is so much opportunity here and i said to jeff i said jeff what you want to talk about and send me back a you know a list of five things and i said ok i said well how much time doing have said ten minutes said jeff i think my subject doesn't know me very well ten minutes is not very much time so i'm going to try to i'm going to try to tick through a bunch of the things jeff want to me to hit on you know rather quickly because i know we have the paths to watch tonight so i think we'd all like to get home and do that but you know you know i remember belmont media center over the first time i  thought it was a closet and you come in from that you guys will remember the rear entrance of the high school by the gym and you walked in and there was this door there right across from the bathroom and wasn't wasn't very clear what it was so i literally thought it was a closet until i think one day i just walked in and i literally said what is this and then i think julie was there and jeff and and we and we you know began discussing what what was going on and jeff mentioned you know  and i think it deserves a little bit of you know context jeff just mentioned that i you know he talked to some my teachers and i had you know was having you know some difficulty in school and so forth let me just give you what you know what really that that meant you know i think high school can be challenging for everyone who you talk to about high school for the most part everyone will have some sort of challenge whether it was you know bullying or whether it was a subject you know that they didn't you know struggle you know struggle with and you know one of the things i continue to talk about this is that i was part of the lab program i was part of a lab program in belmont which is a fantastic program if you don't know about it it is the lexington arlington bedford belmont and burlington collaborative per student that you don't struggle with some sort of disability special need except her and i was diagnosed with asperger's in seventh grade and i came to belmont from needham in the middle of eighth grade and i got thrown into the lab collaborative which i had no idea i didn't want to be there i didn't want to be seen as any kind of you know any different than anyone else and the problem was you know basically you know when it came to academics i strive like every other belmont high school student i think when we left that when i left all my high school was number third in the state and my brothers went to needham high school and i would always say well belmont's always higher than needham and the point was that i always said i took mainstream classes you know throughout my whole tenure four years at belmont high school but i always go back into that lab cross from relatively across the hall from belmont media center and sat through social class social group or social group kind of learning how what's appropriate to say why when do you make eye contact and things like this there was always a stigma about lab in  and it was always something i always tried to you know up until really a time in junior year when i met jeff tried to tried to forget about it make sure no one knew i was part of the that you know population eccentric setter and the reality is that you know that program really does a lot for a lot for students that most high schools can offer so it's really a great day and you know in two thousand and seven i was the first lab student ever to walk across the belmont stage a graduation shaking principle harvest hand at the time but let's fast let's so there you have some context right so i was never life's top athlete you know but i always was very outgoing and wanted to do a lot of stuff so i so i went into the belmont media center and there came op or two nitty right there came a chance to belong i mean reality is jeff probably would have except anyone off the street at that time no one was coming into this closet like so i kind of got a comic got lucky and you know we started to put together the shows i first i first worked on a you know he said look i can't let you have your show right away so what i want to show you said no no no you have to learn the camera first and you know do do some of the you know behind the scenes work so i worked on the sport the other sports show that was going on not i think i worked on togs a couple times but there was another one that ended up fading out fairly quickly and not being you know tremendously successful like but then there was a space and i said jeff we need a show that will talk about current events that will talk about politics differently then fox news or c n n or these people because no one cares about students don't watch them but maybe if students see us talking about politics they get more involved so that was a strong enough pitch for jeff and we put it together and the show was called currently speaking i grab a couple kids from classes and i said look we talk politics let's let's go and i really hadn't been involved in politics but i knew i didn't like politics so i started getting involved and we started in two thousand and six and i went back and i started going through everything we were able to do and each show gave us more opportunity more you know the ability to do something that had never been done before i mean we went through dozens of shows and one of the shows that really stands out it was the two thousand and six election and there were several of them but i said look we're going to get some politicians in here just said no i don't think we're going to do that and co us what are you talking about now why is anyone running for office going to come to the belmont me isn't so because i'm a cal so we started calling them and just literally calling them and look i'm sorry to say that deval patrick you know never never came on the program but at the time kerry healey's running mate in two thousand and six read him and joined us and we talked to him for a long time but every single one of his policy positions that you know today make him seem like a very very good man compared to some of the people we saw on stage last night in that same party  up sorry this is a nonpartisan nonpartisan event but but i want to leave it at that for regardless of politics but you know then we also had grace ross on the program who for us was really cool she was a candidate for governor right now look she only got a couple percentage points but it's still one of the coolest things that happened we did a show outside of the state house and we parked in representative and paulson's spot in the state house and this was like the coolest thing we're like she came out from the door and we pulled up in in like my old first card parked and brought all the camera stuff out and we just really were able to craft you know something that i think really became a forming and this was because jeff allowed you know opportunity and it was the opportunity of for so many people which has now grown i think the opportunity for me was to really feel like i belong really felt like i was appreciated there was no one judging anything that was going on and it was an opportunity for me to really figure out what was my passion here and we were it we did i'm not going to remember all the shows but i was talking to the chief tonight we did a show and it's such a shame that we're still dealing with these issues today but we did a show on the virginia tech shooting and we had one of at the time one of the chief lieutenants in to talk about well what was the school doing really making that current event that was a nationwide issue local right and we mentioned that how important local local local izing our news is and we did a tons of different events where we did a you know we did a show that recap two thousand and six and it was the year that james brown died and we had like a you know we just really did a lot of cool things and it was just again it's all because of the opportunity that jeff gave us every sort of idea everything new we had gave us a shot right and once you have a shot you can prove that you can do different things and once you prove you can do different things the skies are really the limit and that's what jeff did and then i said and i'm very jealous of the van that i just saw there because jeff didn't mention this but i i think i was one of the first people to do any sort of sports broadcasts and we lug around all the gear right and i t wasn't a big you know athlete but i love sports and current events so we created i suggest look we need to start filming the baseball games we need for film in the basketball games so ok so we this was in the years that the glory years for belmont basketball with timmy timmy barrow scale on the gravel and you know the year we went to the championship in the garden in two thousand and seven and then we had you know our baseball our baseball teams with  you know i really it was not only the idea that they were letting me film these games and i was doing the play by play and i thought i was the next jerry remy and everything else but i became to be seen as something different than the special needs kid that sometimes i thought was over my head in the high school because i started to get to know the players and become part of the team you know you know coach brown coach brown you know for baseball said to me look we want you to travel that team right so this again and you look how far it's come now it's all about opportunity and i really think is tremendous in terms of the opportunity it gave me to go into college right with the passion knowing what i wanted to do i first started endicott college and beverly in beverly massachusetts and let's just say they told me they had a great studio and a great communications program i could set up my own show there while i got there and i think there were less people there than when i got into this closet in belmont belmont high school and so we never were really able to get off the ground there with a show but i saw what we could do here in belmont and then long story short i transferred to g w and i really farted to realize i don't i'm too opinionated to be a journalist i want to be on the other side of you know of the coin and how people craft their message and throughout college we had a i had a radio show that really was the idea was still let's talk to people in a way that they can understand it about what's going on in the world and that all started with with currently speaking and that has grown here you know and i was looking i was looking you know i still my my girlfriend says why can't we get rid of these and i still have a stack of all those d v d s of all our shows sitting in d c and every once in a while i actually see meghan put some into the d v d player because it's actually really pretty embarrassing i mean it is pretty cool but it this is not like i don't think i really had you know it was the next you know scott pelley or anything but you know it was it was very memorable and the reality is it that passion started because of the opportunity jeff gave me and belmont media center gave me and continued today where now you know after electing a congressman delaying the congress from maryland in two thousand and twelve who is the first c new york stock exchange company to serve in congress he said to me we want you i want you to start your own firm and i said i was twenty three years old i thought he was absolutely insane but he was a very wealthy businessman so i took his advice and but that was the same let's just that was the same thing that someone like jeff said to me i don't want you you know five years earlier well give it a shot you know you can do it right and so that's what we did and since then the firm's been active for three years i've worked with everyone from you know aruba putting together his digital strategy for his two thousand and thirteen reelection to city council candidates in maryland and all over you know in massachusetts and pennsylvania to congressional candidates and also nonprofits so you know it's been a really amazing opportunity and i just you know really can't stress enough how important the work that everyone does here is and the work that you know really can be learned from this and you know continue this whole process and it's really an honor to be here i just want to mention i mentioned to the district attorney ryan that i still follow her race last year from far i had several friends working on that race and  that was a very bruising primary but you know it is when you always learn a lot from those tough primaries and i know i want every elected official here to remember that you guys have reelections coming up in just a few years so i'll make sure to give you my business card  same i want to thank you jay johnson over here for putting together that video and for also the photo retrospective that we had going on before the event sort of these i thank you very much and  in addition this program has helped us every year with our telethon not just as a camera operator but also as a photographer he would take all of our action and behind the scenes pictures thank you very much it's really a pleasure being part of media center and videotaping what i really enjoy and the arts and that's why i do it for the school and i think the people in belmont need to see what produces the belmont music department fine and performing arts and that's why when i do it i enjoy it and i want to pass that enjoyment to the people to the audience and i do get some comments and the last two shows that i did with the castle concert you should really see that it will be probably on and a couple of weeks depending when can schedule it and the last one that i did was the masquerade concert beautiful costumes beautiful music so don't mess it thank you very much there's a plaque it b m c in the boardroom and as of tonight todd's name is on that plaque and here to talk about that a little bit is the founding share of the belmont media center and  interval force and what we have here today without jonathan green i can guarantee you we would not be here today jonathan green it's actually is a bit difficult because a lot of a lot of what i'd like to say has already been said so i think that it's actually good for you because and we can shorten this up and you can get on to finding out the other part of that score that scott told us about board of directors two thousand and five and unfortunately though passed away in two thousand and eleven but you know he had a great impact on all of us for those of you who knew him somewhat of an imposing man with a lot of energy he would come to their board meetings and with his background in finance try to enforce some financial rigor within the group as well as you know being oriel by nature he would take great i think delight and some of our debates we would have it well i'd say were rather lengthy board meetings held in that closet that andrew talked about i guess the fact that the in fact almost epic marathons at times is probably a testament the fact that sandra described there was a bathroom across the hall from her from the closet so that enable people to to do what they need to do with and resume the board meeting late into the night  david was dedicated to reaching out to to all of us and really one of his things besides financial integrity was ensuring that the media center was an open access center welcome to all and i think that you know everything we've seen tonight in terms of the retrospective and on what we've heard really is a testament to the fact that the media center has done well by including so many people within the community such a cross section of residents and even beyond and david is takes to take a lot of credit for that david's education i think is best exemplified by something that i was actually thinking about yesterday as i walked through the parking lot of the local grocery store and i remember one particular board meeting where david arrived late and quite a bit late and he can he came in and he was all bruised up and turns out he had come from the emergency room because prior to that he had been in the parking lot of one of our local grocery stores i won't name in the name of the grocery store but in fact it's extremely close in nine lexington street and he was hit by a car hole on the board but we decided in his honor to name an award called the david t nelson spirit award an honor of his spirit and also it makes recognition the fact that david was an avid sailor who sailboat so feels appropriate jonathan come in kind of full circle here i was on the board can be yours the put you on the first board now you're here presented me with this and like you said the other chris the other person that's such a big part of this award is is david nelson and first of all i want to say i'm very deeply honored to receive this award following in the footsteps of my fellow board members who were prior recipients of the jonathan meyer and add of all  previous recipients of the award as jonathan mentioned the course i had the honorable the honor and pleasure of serving with david nelson during my first two years as a board member and  you know at the side from the heated discussions david would have i know he obviously spoke a lot about sailing a lot of times wanted to talk about whether he'd where he just been to where he was going to be headed next and jonathan also mentioned there i do remember that during his time as treasurer on the board because he implemented a lot of accounting controls the board still uses today makes it a lot easier to be a effective board treasurer i also doubt it would have been a capable board chair over the last year although that could be up for some debate how capable but if not for my experiences as treasurer i think i would have the courage to move up to share the board over the last the last year to me this award embodies both the knowledge that david imparted on the belmont media center as well as enduring spirit and it's a similar combination that is made to be mc such a dynamic organisation during the last ten years one that i've now been fortunate  to see from two different perspectives and you know when i think about that combination you've got the board of directors and geoff and the entire b m c staff they serve as the brain trust so while the members and volunteers all of you are here tonight bring your energy and passion every day into the media center you are the heart soul and spirit that make the b of c a vital part of the belmont community and i guess i'll wrap up here by using a sports analogy you knew i'd get to one of the actually by the way  patriots leading nine nothing in the second quarter yes they scored a safety if you're scoring at home and if you are that you're not here and now to use that sports analogy it is almost almost the end of the fourth quarter as i get ready to step down from my time on the board and return to my previous b mc status as a member and volunteer but i am extremely confident our hardworking board that has played such a key role over the last ten years will continue to help guide the ball about media center to more success in the next ten years and beyond thank you obviously thank everybody for coming tonight once again i want to thank the staff of the b m see that working hard behind the scenes to put this production on you you know thank you to against all for all the board members president past who are here