hello and welcome to the belmont journal your source for hyper local news and community updates i'm mike crowley your host this week the organizers for belmont ports fast are looking for your feedback as they plan next year's event you can find their survey at survey monkey dot com slash our slash slash port's fast two thousand and eighteen belmont journal went live tuesday night to make sure that you had information as soon as it was available on the ballot question for the debt exclusion for the new school here are the results as they were read by ellen cushman the town clerk and right after will have a discussion with joanna jubal us about those results on seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty seven voters today was a great day twelve thousand eight hundred and thirty three voters turned out which is seventy two thirty five percent no not a record but really great question for i've been asked to just give the results of question four so for all eight precincts see we have the number of i'm cast as blank vote for one for the number of yes votes nine thousand four hundred and sixty seven which is equivalent to seventy six  twenty three percent and the number of no two thousand nine hundred and fifty two which is equivalent of twenty three seventy seven percent welcome to this week in the citizen herald belmont online print and news source and welcome back joanna jubilance senior multimedia specialist with the citizen harold call me whatever you want i feel when i do i consider myself a public servant to belmont so in terms of public service to belmont we have some results to discuss about question question for on the ballot is very exciting the question for past now a lot of us i had a feeling that it would pass but we didn't know it would pass by such a wide margin seventy six percent that's right and and and i actually was at the party that the pass the debt exclusion he feels confident they will because the results were so so good so so i'm sure they'll be there will be some discussion that town meeting but it would just to be extremely unusual to have the electorate pass this such a wide margin and for how for town meeting to do anything different than to endorse it and he did say that once town meeting does pass it they do pass it they are meeting the morning of november th they're going to get right to work on the detailed design aspects on this ok any other election results that that are well i thought well might be overall vote voter turnout was seventy three percent that's one clear ellen question our town clerk said it is high it's not the most high it's ever been but it's definitely high good high so a very good voter turnout said the flow throughout the day on the precinct and i think about one quarter of voters voted early as well tonight right y other well any other questions on the ballot the oh yes question ok so we voted belmont voted the same way out pretty much the rest of the state voted question one did not pass so there will be no patient to nurse overwhelming oratory and i will thank you so much and we'll talk to you next time welcome to this week in the belmont tourney and and welcome back franklin tucker editor of the belmont tony and and we're happy to have you back thank you very much so following the successful vote on the new school what's expected to take place now well it's in the process of building the school now  day after the school ends or whenever we have snow days you'll see pilot starting go in there and that will become a construction site and it's important that the school is going for existing school so so the project is going to move forward fairly quickly very fast all right that's all that's all positive so let's talk for a moment about the incinerator site so adam dash told the warrant committee last night the board of be and there's also a county a scale so a lot of economics that we don't really know is a site big enough if you're will it be something that people that companies will bid for or will it be a white elephant so that's why they want to do that that's because there are really two plants that  s that you know i think there's a belief that there that this could become a significant revenue source for the town again though those are something that the feasibility study will find out you know is it again is a big enough  doesn't have the economy of scales in that and that's something that we will find out before they were they hope that this will be done very quickly and have something by the beginning or the end of this year right and so they can move forward with the capping of the site ok so we'll know more about that soon and thanks so much and thank you we'll see you next time thanks we have anne marie mahoney who was the chair of the d p w and police building committee here with us today to talk about what we can expect next in terms of doing some of the repair work to these buildings that town meeting has approved welcome annemarie thank you very nice to be here so so what is  happening at this point with the bill with a building committee sure we're very excited we have worked very quickly and very creatively with our architect and with the d p w and police and our building committee and right now we are in the process of creating construction drawings and documents for both facilities so the building committee has approved a plan for both ok which everybody is happy with and our goal is to go out to bid in february and both of those projects and when what when might we expect work to actually begin again our goal is that work on the d p w will start in spring ok as soon as we possibly can a work and so those guys need to be able to move around with their snowplows and everything sure once the bad weather sets in and and work on the on the police station will begin about the same time want to probably yes but that's going to be a longer process because it's a much bigger try jacked it's addition and renovation as is the d v d but on a much larger scale now now that the police department will have to be relocating during the work right yes we anticipate that the work will take ten to twelve months and so it actually will speed up the process and make it a little safer if we can relocate those employees so the plan right now is to put them in the town hall much in the same way that when the homer building was renovated those offices came into the town hall utilizing the auditorium ok and maybe one or two conference rooms all right so so things will get a little bit crowded it'll be a little cramped but we hope for less than a year and then the the current communications facilities that won't be moving into the town hall right know the dispatch the nine hundred and eleven we're going to put in a rented trailer right in front of the existing police station ok that way we can run all the wires in everything that they need technologically literally out a window and into the trailer and ice and they can stay right there without any disruption ok and so it's it's it's planned that because of the sighting of the relocation there should be men mall disruption to traffic and whatnot thirty yes i think so yes we'll try to locate that trailer so that we don't even any parking well this certainly sounds positive i know that that that you know i was i've gone on a tour of the d p w facility i know that that the fixes that are planned to those facilities are desperately to that work yes we're very happy i think our plan people will be pleased with it's very creative architect has been really ingenious in how he's made this work and we've managed to make that building now excess of all we got the elevator we have a nd set of him safe lock up we have locker room facilities that are equitable for both males and females safe sally port for bringing prisoners in if you think it's going to be a huge improvement and so just again in terms of the recent fire in belmont center caused a number of businesses to temporarily close or relocate among them was leaving on in company a hairdresser we on and company has found a stations where we have stylists facing each other so we have the capacity of twelve stylists that can work here at the same  probably for five maybe even six months but then i'm looking forward to go back to where we were before it's going to be brand new it's go don't deserve a brand new place in a beautiful place i'm very very happy and for the time being this will do the she's fine you know everybody seems pretty positive and surprised how quickly we got in here kind of lost style industrial now it's time for our community calendar with jane peters jane talks about all of the interesting things happening in belmont this week hello everyone this is your community count or for next week join the belmont garden club in their november the library on wednesday at three for harvest craft with children's librarians this craft will teach you how to make potato stamps to create fun pieces of art check the libraries website for more information and to see all events at the library this week november is a great time to have fun with how seeds disperse and travel in habitats parachutes and ladders program everyone will get to make their own parachute find an elevated space to release them and monitor their distance and speed as they find their landing spot register for this program and see a full list of habitat programs at mass autobahn dot org learn the basics of embroidery and a few more complex stitches with belmont resident danielle us or on thursday or friday at ten thirty a start by learning how to transfer an image to fabric and then let your imagination fly through colors textures threads and more no previous experience required learn more and save your seat by emailing daniela belmont's veteran services presents a documentary film the devil dogs on thursday at seven pm at the belmont townhall this french documentary with english subtitles features the work of world war one historian jill's logon who has dedicated his life to connecting with american descendants of soldiers who fought in world war one major edward albee cole commander of the th machine gun battalion of the u s marines th brigade was mortally wounded at the battle of billu would this film be introduced by carolyn kingston granddaughter to major co is devoted time to researching and promoting the life of her grandfather do you enjoy knitting drop into libraries knitting group on fridays between one thousand two hundred and thirty and two hundred and thirty in the room bring along your knitting crochet weaving or other portable crafts and work among others this social group enjoy seeing a few hours to relax and work with yarn and are happy to help you with any troubles you have with your current project the gallery of art six small works for their small works holiday show in sale variety of media are excepted hanging works are not to exceed twenty inches in any direction the gallery charges a small fee in commission for artists if you are interested in showing your work send an email with images and information to the g a a director rebecca richard in the foundation for belmont education spelling bee on november rd held at the treasury middle school let's see if you would be able to spell some of this year's winning words  ok get ready so schism a schism is a separation or split within a group or organization those  now it's time for belmont sports we have some highlights for you or speak out belmont segment as an opportunity for community members like yours or to have your voice heard on things that are important to you if you'd like to participate please contact frederick regal zero our producer at fred  belmont media dot org in the mean time our belmont media center executive director jeff hansel has something to say hi i'm jeff hansell the executive director of the belmont media center and i'm here today to ask you to help save community media here in belmont but also across the country the federal communications commission has proposed a new rule that  effectively reduce or eliminate the franchise fees paid to our community that fund the operations equipment facilities and classes for the media center but for every other community v station across the country fortunately senators ed markey and elizabeth warren have sent a letter to the f c c opposing this rule but the f c c needs to hear from you to the belmont residents organizations and local leaders how can you file your comments to the f c c well we've tried to make it is easy as possible for you it will take you maybe two or three minutes st go to our website belmont media dot org and look for the f c c action alert page there you can read more about it but you can also find some sample comments that you can use to base your own comments upon it but if you're a producer if you're a member of a town committee of one of your children has participated in a class where you have your own story to tell in any case take a look at that and get some more information then click on the link to the f c c site and there you can file your own comments if you need more help click on the link below to our youtube video that explains quite easily how you can file your comments to the f c c again it takes only two or three minutes maximum and your comments we not only help preserve free speech and community media here in belmont but across the country thank you we end our show with a programming update for your belmont media center channel's prefer to watch well that's all for now and i hope to see you next time