moved to this week to thursday april twelfth six o'clock for the light board seven thirty start for the board of selectmen we tried to move it up one week but it was pretty patriots day we tried to move it off one week and it was annual town meeting so it's a for the light board at seven pm for the board of selectmen times subject to change also i should note that there is a talking trash meeting tomorrow night seven pm here at the town hall auditorium to go over our new trash contract and recycling that's how things actually more so than you would think and if you want to see what the cans for the for the automated trash and recycling look like there are two samples down outside the clerk's office at town last tuesday on election day you know you know i proposed i suppose having served for a number of years within our community there was a close friend of mine a mentor and he would be dearly missed by this town  whereas william morris kelley of hill real belmont mass born march fourth one nine hundred forty eight to edna in williams kelly was a long time resident of the town of belmont who sadly passed one two zero third two thousand and eighteen in whereas williams kelly were factually known as bill graduated from high school in one thousand nine hundred six where he was a very successful athlete competing in football basketball and baseball bill was a member of the one thousand nine hundred forty football team that was named the finest team in history to his high school football to teammates tail ian donal ray who were both killed in vietnam and whereas bill was very active in the town serving as an elected member of the board of selectmen from one thousand nine hundred forty two thousand his pictures up there been named to bo bill alongside his civically involved parents was a passionate supporter for a new senior center an advocate for a permanent structure during his term on the board of selectmen and whereas bill scully returned to his home town became an actor volunteer for veteran services for belmont and volunteer in the overall veterans community and contributor at the belmont senior center which he advocated so strongly for now therefore be it resolved we read from here give me the names but at the  in the town of done much joins with the town expressing our sincere condolences to bill's family and friends and offer a tribute to william morris kelly he set a high standard of commitment and dedication which the youth of our town they follow and serve as an inspiration to the citizens of the bill i got to know my lot over the last year and a half and when he came back to town he was very generous with his time talking about being a selectman of what it meant and running and all of that and i spoke to him even not all that long ago on a sleep talking about it working with inner city youth and such a shock to see him gone like this so with that i'd like to also make note that we'd like to read this also the annual town mo that's something of credit for those who can't be there to today are watching like to think bill scully for his service to the town about a month for his family for allowing him to provide that service just as we all know it's not an easy thing then either moving on to the next item update on regional doc list bike share program oh you and is ready to execute their master contract with their selected vendors but they're not moving forward that until all venus pallies have signed him oh you so i'm hoping that tonight you would be in a position to either decide to have someone from the town sign on behalf of the town or take a decision i want to update you a little bit when we spoke in november it was expected that the system the technology would exist where we could say specific places in town where the bikes would not be able to go that's my understanding that the two vendors that were selected do not have that technology so there's nothing to lose short of create a geo fence to prevent a bike from being locked in specified locations i do understand that the chosen winners have fees that they assess words of one hundred twenty dollars for use or ride somewhere and leave that on private property they would then assess the fee to the rider for doing so so i want to bring that to your attention is one change from what we discussed in november we dollface of community velma has also been begun looking at potential locations where we would have the bikes located throughout town and we're looking at roughly fourteen locations based on population density transit access existing a proposed bicycle infrastructure as well as civic and cultural communities and open space amenities we also were asked by him a p c to suggest how many bikes we felt comfortable having a roll out we based our recommendation on a market study that was provided from the vendors they recommended thirty five bikes for belmont if we were asked to suggest a low and a high number low of thirty five high of fifty again this is something that is open for discussion in a p c needed a number in order to move forward with their conversations with the vendors know tom you weren't on the board when we had this presentation before and if you had questions about it because basically if you go to you know some real cambridge boston you see the hub way bikes where they have a locked you know mechanism that sits on the sidewalk or on parking spaces and takes up a lot of room this is dr less so it doesn't have those big docking stations which actually is superior to that and obviously this is one of those methods we could use to take cars off the street by making bike biking easier for people places that we think may make sense now once the data comes in it may we may realize that those aren't even being used and we have the ability to add or reduce the number of bikes and locations so this is not just in for belmont right i mean people can sort of can come from out of town to drop off their bike one of these  exactly exactly the thing is that there are those other communities and got locked into a contract with hub way and actually we kind of benefited by waiting a little bit because this is way better than having those big ugly right there's a lot of infrastructure demand like there would be with the paperwork online as usual so people could see that yeah so if you go to the borders like ones website you should be able to see the map showing where the locations would be the fourteen locations in belmont where the bikes would be located including right here at the t requiring a list of parking regulations you will one of those will be that you can't just throw it on the sidewalk you can't put it in the handicapped accessible zone if there's a bike rack available you're supposed to use the bike rack if it's in a place where there's not a bike rack that it needs to provide at least six feet of clear it's on the sidewalk for pedestrians to get by and you can't leave it obviously in a roadway and something of that of that nature yeah i remember something like in summer about twenty years ago i think they had this thing where they were going to do with portland oregon to done where they got all these bikes that pain to the monopoly color that made them one gear so they'd be unattractive and they would just leave them around the city and you could take them and use them then about two weeks they were all gone  draft the statement of work that will essentially serve as the contract between them is a pallet in the vendors and that statement of work will say that we want the thirty five to fifty and then if six months down the road we realized that we could use more the document is set up so that we can go back in and change it and alter it as needed so there is there's the ability to add or reduce bikes and get it no cost to the town so if we had to raise more bikes needed we can make that request that's right the venue will supply more bikes right and it's expected that you know as people become familiar with the program that it will be higher demand you know six months a year from now this and keep in mind that this memorandum of understanding is being executed by all of the participating towns are signing the same agreement along with the metropolitan area planning council so we're not there are no separate though to accept a gift of seven hundred fifty dollars that the police department has received on march twenty third two thousand and eight team from the bay state federal savings a charitable foundation to be utilized to assist the police department  actually our citizens police academy that we have just started last tuesday evening so it came in good time and but as the letter said from mr murphy we are pleased to enclose a donation in the amount of seven hundred fifty dollars as financial assistance to support the elmont citizens police academy thank you for offering this valuable program to the residents of belmont on behalf of our directors and officers we want to you and your officers for your personal commitment and ongoing  started we have we've had it advertised and we right now i believe we have fifteen people and the academy and we had the first night last tuesday and from the myself and lieutenant daly were the first  presenters and i think they were very impressed so we took them on a tour of our station and we had a class found stairs and i think everybody was good and happy that they came and it's running for about nine weeks and at the end of it ride along and exposed them to what we do and we have a number of good classes with a number of personnel within the department going to give the classes so i think at the end of the day i think very well and very will be very well spent because i think it's a as you pointed out that's a good thing and a good bridge to build it gives the people an idea of what we do and how we do it and again i think they'll be so we'll do cross street first sure in january eleventh the traffic advisory committee had a public meeting to respond to a request from a resident of cross street to look into the parking situation on cross street the concerns that were raised were that vehicles were having difficulty getting out of driveways on cross street because there were so many cars parked and parked too tight to the driveways on cross street vehicles parked too close to the side streets making visibility coming out of those right side streets difficult because you couldn't see past the vehicles at the public hearing it became obvious that while those conditions were occurring this is also really an effort by that neighborhood to sort of stem the progression of parking that has occurred over the years if you look at the graphic that i submitted the green highlights show you with a current two hour restriction exists and that those that come into our restriction has sort of evolved over time it wasn't implemented all in one shot and so you know what we find is depending on the vibrancy of the on center the occupancy numbers and the amount of employees the parking up across  street on the side streets just continues to creep closer and closer to the wind brooke school and so this latest request which is really to extend the two hour parking restrictions from farnham street up to street and then  including the side streets of winnin dean so everything that you see highlighted in red would be captured in this latest request so i have thought i had heard some concerns from people the neighborhood this was floated and i guess their concern was and this is always what happens when one of them makes a parking change that would push the commuter parking further into the neighborhood and that doesn't really solve the problem it just sort of shoves it further down cross street on the other side streets that don't currently have it and i wondered know if the tack of review that well the the proposal that includes the limits on dean street and when street were directly aimed at that concern you know at some point adam i think there's going to be a limit in terms of the distance in the amount of time that you can cover that distance where eventually person park in the i was just not going to feel comfortable parking in a location on cross and then walking back to belmont center grab a train or a bus i don't know if we're there yet i just don't know i think the traffic advisory committees challenge here was to you know recognize the concerns that were raised by the residents while also realizing that there is a portion of this neighborhood that has already had their concerns addressed with the two hour parking restrictions that are already in place and so how do you balance that how do you sort of you know come down with an equitable and equitable decision for everyone across the other concern would be making sure that the owner of the belmont center business association has been made aware of this making sure they tell their employees if we do adopt this to be where the beaumont's an immersion is i'm not aware of this they were not aware of this really surprised by that the you know the area obviously will be posted which you are restriction and so anyone from the center who is parking there now will realize with the sign posting that they can't do that any longer  you're asking two points of well exactly i mean where i live in a public meeting it's a very not i'm not i'm not i'm not done planning one way or the other i'm just raising the issue you know the and also it's important to note to the public that this is a temporary test for six months it's not a permanent thing that we're testing it for six months and then we will revisit it in this way i was telling the constituents who called that it's an experiment you know look see see what's going on in the neighborhood report back we'd like to see the eyes on the street  tell us how this is working out that's exactly right i mean virtually every action the traffic advisory committee takes always comes with that cabbie out of a six one trial period maybe there's something that was missed maybe there's some tweaking that's required right we always  encourage people affected by the decisions to let us know and i would say that if it turns out that there are massive problems a month in we don't have to necessarily w so and then you have to remove them right but on the other hand you know i one thing about the six months is it allows you to get through multiple seasons and there is a certain seasonality to the parking lots it's hard to tell if you just do it for one month in the spring because summer is different falls different winter is different so i so i like the six month idea is you try to get a multitude of seasons in there and you can sort of feel it out especially at the farmer's market and how that would implement and how that would affect anything so this is it's good timing if you're going to implement  park in a bride and then a year from now the residents on broad street are going to ask for restrictions and then once you've done that now you're talking my row and i understand the point but it's still less than a mile from one road to beaumont center and you could further push out people that want to park all day and to me this feels like you know just patch like we're patchwork we're going to put signs here they're going to size up all the streets whether or not there's any ability to enforce all of this to our park and that's a challenge for a current contingent you know within the police department i understand the concerns of these resident people don't want folks parking all day i think some of the changes in terms of having no parking here to corner makes abundant sense to me you know in terms cross that eventually the folks will be pushed down it will get you so it i don't know how you solve this problem because it's like this in every other neighborhood everyone's going to come in here and want to our parking on their street and some for residents frankly park outside of their house that live there so they're going to get ticketed if they happen to be there longer than two hours the restriction is for everyone so yes and there's entrance noted on the memo from tac there's no limit on the time line it's just two hours peer i mean know you're going to get up in a situation like cambridge where you've got residents parking right in sneakers that's difficult to we talked about that before right and that we've talked about resident parking only and how do you enforce that came which does have that i don't know how they enforce about a mile to baumeister so the limit of this restrictions approximately half a mile so that's where you know that's and that's a distance that people want to have been doing that in some role of the new zoning and they've got parking restrictions that are a quarter mile from transit half a mile from transit and then beyond that because they kind of a consistent plan for the entire neighborhood and yeah and as you know mark you've been around for a long time looking at this issue yeah we haven't been able to find that answer yet i know it's difficult it's challenging because there's limited parking in belmont center you know we put together you know a fairly decent parking i mean i can plant a bomb and center with the meters and i think that's working fine we don't have enough spots i think in the in the a lot i think but i think even if we do have some bots going past you know a lot for the original it was all just want to pay exactly  know i would i would say the answer is no i'd say that their focus was more on the fact that they recognized that the restriction already exists for that for that first portion of cross street and this was just a continuation of that philosophy across street  teacher in the case play cases as the issues come up well the concern is it has got to do with people taking the commuter rail right i think part of it's part of it's commuters and part of it is employees who employs so then i was just trying to find if there was a way to do you know eight am to six pm monday through friday or something so people wouldn't get ticketed for parking on their street or having a party or something like that look i hate to be against this because i understand the concern a resident have parking for the household that i think we need to make the improvements for visibility so it's a part of the recommendation but again it's just pushing it you mentioned it it's pushing the issue further down cross and we're going to be back here talking about i meant guaranteed either you know what i'm hearing not for the restrictions on these other streets and a broader sort of a i don't know the solution is a resident parking or broader maybe it is like eight to six eight or something like that you know a broader sort of restriction or run the commercial and i don't know maybe there's something different we need to do other than say to our park and i do wonder if one of these i'd like to understand is how many tickets are we given out how how do how often do we monitor i know this discussion and fully supported by the farmer's market the need for can clobber ration around these issues in really wasn't in my mind is there a way do i mean is this something that we could i mean we're meeting thursday not like i'm looking to add anything to what's already kind of getting to be a choked agenda that this is under consideration i think we certainly could inform them i think it's very likely they're going to raise an objection and then at that point i don't see what we can do you know in two days to resolve the objection i you know this is this is  think about this further and he thought like it needs to be done immediately i mean if they didn't have an objection with the no parking to cornerman that was something they thought i think that makes sense yeah yeah but it had to do and the six months they were kind of willing to see how it looked for six months but they weren't happy about it i'm more concerned that like you said we took kind of told the business association we work with them and that we're not working with them i'm not intentionally but it just doesn't work it's a bad luck and i'm very in i don't know how to solve it and have to be involved those lines and i do agree the safety concerns i do think should trump so maybe again the agreement is or guidance from tac could very well be within a certain distance of the intersection you know that will be standard but beyond that because voters not unlike go there a to hear everybody on it because you've got the residents who are going to be getting the restriction you may like it you have the residents on brought in monroe who aren't going to like it or leave it the resident the business people who may have a different view and it's sort of going to be a tough there may be people on dean and one who don't like it because i'm in there making remarks made me set for two hours you know for more than two hours so it's a no i'm sure that when the conversation occurred three years ago or so about restricting on fire yours i'm sure i was there points were made retain point it's a little bit longer now i might have said it but i'm sure the same points were made so here we have three four years down the road and sure enough with heavy lobbying for fun i mean we agreed to it you know i'm not saying it was the right  decision but we agreed to it because what happens is you pressure from the residents we're here to serve them going to accommodate their concerns and then what happens is the next treat over then has all the course and up there what's the problem you see you know the discussion is about  they have is the when they're doing new development if you're thin the quarter mile they're saying you don't have to provide any parking at all for within a half or a quarter mile that at different amounts because frictions are parking between now half a mile and because you don't need a car if you're that close to rapid transit no parking around our town centers and taxes doing that with traffic looking at how dress traffic but they haven't ever but not ok so we can work on many things and i think i think we should have some internal discussions before we do anything and wh and principal clifford contacted me to ask if there if it was possible to extend the drop off restriction on deal world to broaden the area traffic advisory committee held a public hearing in march and some of the members of the p t a were there the p t a did reach out to the butter's that would be affected by this the diagram that you have in front of you same concept what's highlighted in green is with the  restriction currently exists which is no parking between eight and nine it's assigned as a drop off area the proposal is that in the areas that are highlighted in red to extend the drop off areas of those locations between eight and nine the reason for the request is right now across the street from the burbank school in the areas that are highlighted in red essentially parents are pulling up parking there leaving their vehicles and they're walking their kids to the school it's not that the school is against that happening they just don't want it happening in this immediate area where they really want to keep the traffic moving have the have the parents drop the child off have them cross the street or walk up the street get on to school property allowing vehicles to park in this area just bobs everything down and just adds to the chaos so this is this is a way to push the parents who want to park and walk their children either up on douglas road or around the corner on edge more away from the action and did the neighbors show up for this i know that i was at the tac meeting along go and look there are a lot of people from this neighborhood who were at that meeting this particular hearing i don't recall anyone actually showing up from the affected properties which no just thinking about that we're about to go into when will this be implemented because will be the summer we have yes i would i would would like to get this up next week ok because i'd like to i'd like it to be there when they get back from vacation so that we have a period of time this school year for the parents to get used to it and then in the fall they come back in september the law is still be in and you're going to serve them for a little while in line to see how it goes great motion am monday through friday for six months for just six months as a truck right well are you monitoring it for six you know what i would i'd like to not have to come back all right voting sign the warrant for in your town meeting scheduled for april thirtieth two thousand and eighteen at seven pm and sign the warrant for the special town meeting to be held on may second two thousand and two so your books in terms ok we have a town five masonry in windows second all those in favor of the next item is vote to approve a one day all alcoholic beverages license application from the bethel temple center to concord out for the spring gala event to be held april next vote to approve one de wine and malt license application from the folk art center of new england for their roots and branches benefit gala to be held in april it fourteenth two thousand and eighteen from seven thirty pm to eleven pm at the first church in belmont discussion and vote on f one thousand nine hundred supplemental requests so these are items that we've looked at on that we looked at this before this and we've heard from the department heads i know tom was you were here in the audience for some of the some of th discussions i've had with the great you know the great tree so we spoke to the library director and we felt that for the pretty much the ten thousand dollars that they were looking for that they would try to find it within their current f one thousand budget i know when spoke to peter he said he would bring that back to the library trustees so that's kind of where we are with that of course i do feel and glenn glenn as well feel that they have the money given that the term backs to absorb that into their budget i mean we don't have the state the final state numbers doing when we expect june or early june so i remember when we did the supplemental last year we did them sitting at the high school before town meeting when we had a final that's going to members from the needed to happen and i actually had scheduled a meeting with the i t manager fire department police department to find out number one what are the true needs of everybody and how to address it and what's the plan i think we need an action plan before we just start from positions around into technology committee can help yeah i was actually thinking about yeah yeah i do i think that that's definitely more conversations we've happened and things like that before we go anywhere so that's one to five eleven so in terms of some other conversations i've had so i spoke to representative david marr just last week and he commented that the the budget in the state is kind of starting to have their conversations and is there state one of them especially was the trees the sixty thousand especially because i feel it's more of a public safety issue expression going into next winter we want to make sure that everything's trimmed and everything looks good before next  then the other one that i had mentioned to him and i'll be submitting is extended i was for the veterans office or i felt that is about seven s six d cells part one we think we've identified four hundred of them in the budget which is the benefit piece because people kind of come on and off you know obviously that's kind of a mixed bag because sometimes you could have more people come on and off but we feel that we could at least cover think in terms of the rodent control the this might be able to be absorbed within the current operations of the board of health and i can have those discussions fired that was one of my ideas in the carrying experiment of interesting to see if that has an effect two places  apartments you start to wonder you know while they're all great and they're all worthwhile we don't have a bottomless pit of cash so it's one of those things where you know if it wasn't it didn't rise to the level for the department to request in their budget you start to wonder if it's an actual  using money for non one time expense of which you're adding to the pension obligations you have to keep that first so another idea i had for the assessment center so the through the community compact they have regional grants i didn't know if there was another fire necessarily be thirty grand i appreciate your point about we don't have four hundred sixty seven thousand excess funds in our budget you know but there are certain things i think are important for us to think about if we get additional state aid or if there's a way to fund it i mean i can best meet those and then add the seasonal help for the jeep if you know you i don't know where we would find that additional thirty five thousand and i mean we've been doing without it it's not like things but i mean you know perhaps as ways start messing around check we end up with a shortfall we're going to have bigger problems than most but this is kind of where we're going to create a truth i see we have a citizen wants to make a comment being that he's a former member of this table i think would certainly give him the dispensation so please some more information on these other time to give any comments made i guess one question you suggested that you were chatting with a rodgers about the possibility of earmarks when does that process conclude it probably would come clear on that same time we would know when if we got additional it's good to have this discussion in front of the public to know what the considerations are and again none of this is a knock on any of the requests i mean they're all worthwhile and if we had all the money in the world i would fund a mall but we just can't sing all right  advisory committee creation of new temporary business development study group i put this on the agenda this is the third time we've had this conversation but i for tom's benefit who have reason to think this is this is a committee that i would like to focus this year a lot on some revenue generation in advance of the high school debt exclusion and any possible shortfalls in twenty one and the problem is the the temporary and it is a temper was a temporary economic development advisory committee and i was looking on the website and i don't see any meetings that have happened in the last two years and the charge i think needs change it talks about economic development director jay skloot knol who hasn't been around for years i mean it just seems like it's too big a charge for the for the group and nine is too many people to be on it raise this before i'll say it again i think we need as like a six month temporary study committee of business people to locate business development log jams make recommendations of for ways for us to remove them and i spoke to the belmont center business association a couple months ago and some business people and some homeowners who have complained about being slow and hard to navigate at times more difficult to get permits than other towns i'm not saying it's true i'm saying that's the perception and that many would be willing to seem to be willing to serve on something as long as of short duration and have defined end to it i think five to seven people depending on the interest would be wise and then we could use those results to create a new economic development whatever we want to call it committee to then have a new charge based on those and direct it in a narrow way to the actual problems at hand so i would want to vote to dissolve the old what i think is defunct moribund committee anyway and create this new committee and have the town administrator draft a charge sort of along the lines of what i've described in post openings and see if we can get some people get moving like we did on like a lot yeah i'm a supporter as well i guess the one question i one of the ways i got hooked into it was it was a six month committee and then we got way into it and realize we're running out of time we went to this like been asked for six more months if we were granted but i think if you go in saying it's a year and i'm watching here then there may be a little harder to gather some think well and i've also met i'd like to get it going sooner rather than later and lot of these people tell me the problems i think they know what the problems are i think is into write it down and write make bounce it off other people make sure it's not just a one off that it's something more systemic and if in fact it is this democrat or of just maybe a couple of people had a bad experience and maybe it isn't systemic and everything's fine but i've heard enough it's like i go in the businesses and they come over and they talk to me about this that you know other thing and i've heard stories and it's not  i work in a lot of other communities of my law practice and if what they're saying is true we really need to stop it so what it may not be true but whatever some of these experiences they've had there's we could really help ourselves a lot of if we could you know just address them and even if there's a perception maybe it's something to do to address the perception i think doing this would address the perception even if we do nothing out of it the fact that we've actually opened it up and brought them in and worked on it and then create a new economic committee that will do what we decide we want to do for revenue enhancement and to bring in business and make us more business friendly that's the way i would like to go with a second way to reinvigorate i mean this is my idea from two thousand and ten or eleven forget you know more of a white board committee to look at economic development in t and he did a wonderful report and if you've seen it time and then it just became somewhat dormant you know membership changed and i think this is a great way to sort of get it up and running again you know but it would have narrow focus narrow motion to dissolve the old temporary economic development advisory committee and create a new business development study group and have the time the minister draft a charge sort of in the line of what we're just what we're discussing and then supposed opening of a five to seven people so moved second i was in favor i think here i like it excellent discussion related to housing trust agreement and i will tell you why i put this on the agenda can i just say that some members of the want to many want while the work committee recommended favorable action on all of the c p a projects this one was a split vote of ninety four in favor and some of the can in that way were some of the reasons behind the no votes were that this invision to an agreement and there was a draft template agreement in the c p a application which is in your packet a template agreement as to how the between the housing trust which would you spend the money and the board of selectmen which would i guess provide this through the c p a provide the money and that that contract would be better to do the contract first and allocate the money second or at least talk about the contract and start negotiating the contract rather then award the money and then do a contract later so and i thought that that actually made some level of friends not necessarily we're going to do a contract for might this is why i don't want to put it off because there will be a probably a part two to get it but i think it would be good to take the housing trust template and have it filled in and i know patrice gave us something we set down tonight with us here this contract here if you want to walk us through what's in that what's in your book is the template contract that the housing trust provided c p a application which is sort of a standard look leave this kind of allocation of for formal housing i know from my work in affordable housing is common to c p a and there is a draft agreement for we're not reinventing any wheels here however this is like you know if you saw the comments like you could  could have that you might want to change this you might want to change that so it's it's a template but it's adaptable we need to decide what the contract is going to contain what the contract is not and i know patrice gave us something you want to tell us what this is so this is george's version of what i standard type of the month in the contract doesn't stand you have a contract is pretty standard but if you went if you looked in the template to the right they had all these comments to each of the sections and i made a whole bunch of note sort of asking is this what we want to do do i want to comments to explain the sections and sort of give you options of whether you want to do that and we haven't even had a conversation about this i think before we go to town meetings even if only i would love to go into town meeting and say we have a conference right if not at least like to go to a time meeting and say we're working on a great so you want to talk to it is it briefly tell everybody what this is about well we would like to establish a trust fund and that we would use that fund for to promote horrible housing opportunities  for example we could use that money to leverage other funds from other state programs we could use it to help buy down more restrictions for any kind of a development that was going to be built and done much we could do pre development activities to sort of look to see the suitability of a project here and all my so there are a variety of ways of using the funds and again other communities have set up funds like this we absolutely are are we the community preservation happy to work with the board of selectmen to you know and the general counsel for the town to make sure that this meets whatever kinds of concerns that that you all have  that we really see it as an opportunity that's time now that we need to we're hoping to have our housing for action plan approved sometime soon and there's a we're going to talk about it yes and it's approved by the planning court last week which was very exciting and we think that there are going to be there's going to be a lot more commitment and opportunity to build the horrible housing the town this could help us move forward on some of those opportunities there is one other thing that i don't know if you start the governor has submitted a bill to change some of the funding with the c p c and how trust money can be used and some of it is towards restoration so i'd like to maybe make sure that that very parallel to whatever the scream and says  for the public housing here in dolma specifically in belmont village and that was seen because it's a preservation project versus a a rehabilitation project that was seen as a life safety issue and that was why we were able to use the funds for those know the only thing that i had noted that when i looked at other trust was other types of funding like donations and things like that if you want to have that spelled out here as well it's not just community preservation money that you can actually receive but donations gifts that we can either again in depending on what council things or it's likely we can incorporate that into the actual agreement or just have that as a protocol that we would follow as as part of our process you can also state how often we would be reporting before the sessions of town meeting on april thirtieth and then on may second when the c p a is taken up and we could vote it or not voted at least adopted in the trial or i'd agree upon the terminology and it should town meeting were they just one of the contract and i appreciate your efforts about this because i think that you know part of our discussion around this was well maybe you know should we just wait to see a town meeting approves this before we have the general coun of the building which has been the standard practice from the cd but the department of revenue doesn't exactly agree with the definition so even though it's preserved create you can't really preserve anything that wasn't purchased with c p i so when it's used for public housing the governor is trying to make it explicitly clear that public housing for the envelope of the building for preservation purposes could be used less for and so it's clarification it does say here in the comments for number two it's always good idea to have a deadline for completion of the work why that it's felt out there it could potentially be used for that the governor also has support defined in this in the economic development legislation because it's been a little bit confusing as to what support considering you know i want to set you up in a situation where you can't actually implement it but i mean the question is do you need the ten percent for admin or not if you do then you do if you don't and i don't think you are intending to use it up in that fashion i mean i would hope that if we had some projects that came up our way we would also be looking  reimburse the town for services provided to the trust you couldn't use community development them right and pay them out of this which is what says that the funds cannot shall not replace existing town operating funds nor reimburse the town for chairs are at the time i'm six it says the town shall pay the trust the funds within thirty days of the execution of this agreement and i thought we were at the work where we talked about the town holding the money until the treasurer needed it requisition and so that's about this again this is whe funds and as we needed them he basically reassured us that within a week ten days he would be able to release the funds for us i don't really i guess i don't really care that much but eight i'm not sure what it means the trust ac meeting that supposed to be they'll be able to twelve time will be this thursday this is a brief meeting for you but i want to give the board a chance to meet the new hire prior to the start date which you'll be able thirty i'm sure exhaust the entire reserve fund for snow and ice but i will keep the board up to you as your ongoing snow and ice discussions it was a tough it was a tough march finally working with content of the financial forecast camilli is a report i would note before we get too much further in that was since we last week appointed but we shuffled us ourselves on committees make sure there are some of them you need to be sworn into and some that you need to resign from and some you do not make council also looked at any changes they're going to work with the town a minute straighter and then bring us back a contract so hopefully we'll have something ready to go before the c p a item goes to town meeting you have to go to mike or you go to mike for just identify yourself the contract will spell out owns a contract between the board of selectmen sign and the housing trust sign which governs and it's a standard contract that a lot of these communities that do this do it's not like we're reinventing the wheel here but we do need to tweak and you go back and watch the tape for discussion we we did go through a number of questions and and tweaks we would like them to make to the template in town council made comments so we would like to but i thought it was a good point the warren committee brought up last week to have a contract discussion and read something ready to go before the at least for the past year we've got we're almost just a little over an hour and a half and slightly disappointed that we didn't get it on the 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