belmont veteran service office in the belmont boy scouts girl scouts and cub scouts are going to conduct the u s flag retirement ceremony at clay pit pond saturday october twentieth two thousand and eighteen at ten am the closest to the intersection of underwood street and hit the public is invited to bring old tired or worn us flags to be properly disposed of by burning to this location doing well as nine am but i just said ten am so ten am on saturday so there are also two u s flag collection boxes at town hall and the other the grove street cemetery if you can't make this you can always leave it in the box and have the flags be appropriately disposed of october twenty ninth two thousand eight hundred from four pm to six pm trick or treating at town hall complex on con be limited due to early voting so please use the claflin st lot if needed please stop by dressed in your favorite costume visit town department in the home or building in town hall we hope to see everyone there one book one belmont celebrating two hundred years of mary shelley's frankenstein it can be read aloud marathon from eight am till the end of the book it's saturday on saturday october twentieth that's going to be held at seventy nine leonard street in belmont mass are still seeking some volunteers to read in fifteen minute sections because it's an all day reading they do have the book you don't need to buy want to bring your own should be a good time i'm reading of the last chapter starting around five forty five if anyone wanted to watch we embarrass myself publicly something other than what i do here on  are starting october first in case you haven't already noticed trash carts that are not fully closed will not get picked up they will be stickered the trash the lid has to be closed if you need to have more than will fit in the bag as far as the bin for trash you can purchase overflow bags to take care of them community media day at the belmont media center saturday october twenty third a lot going on saturday october twenty eighth one pm free speech open mike night celebrating community media days at locations at studio a nine lexington street and we are still looking for applicants for the transportation advisory committee this is the new committee that we're going to replace the traffic advisory committee with the transportation advisory committee to be more not just about cars with about pedestrians and bikes as well the deadline to apply for that is on the tenth of ember first and you can do that through the town portal to upload resumes and put down your monday ok thank you for the next would be comments from town residents that are regarding matters which are not on our agenda if you hear from the item on our agenda you will get the chance to speak at that time this is for just things that are not on the agenda going want going twice because the portion of the meeting first item proclamation for the girls high school rugby team front and center i like to see you all want to come on up pull a chair sit up here so really appreciate you guys coming we have a proclamation for you which is from the town a bomb on board of selectmen whereas the belmont high school girls varsity rugby team of belmont high school to twenty one conquered at belmont as a sports team and where as the belmont high school girls varsity rugby team had undefeated eight zero and zero record in the two thousand eight hundred spring season and where as belmont high school girls varsity rugby team defeated lincoln sudbury high school by score twenty to ten in two thousand and eighteen a girls rugby state championship on june twenty third two thousand and eighteen and there has been one high school girls varsity rugby team is now earned the distinction of winning the two thousand and eighteen m i a girls rugby state championship now therefore be it resolved that the board of selectmen of the town of belmont joins with the town paying tribute to this outstanding achievement you set a high standard of commitment and dedication which the youth of our town may follow and serve as an inspiration to the citizens of the town  second i was in favor next item discussion impossible point when a member of the board of beaumont media center i know ralph jones has put his name isn't mr jones that's wonderful want to come up for a moment and then ralph has put his name in here from jeffrey hansel executive director highly endorsing mr jones to replace mr for n z for the remainder of his term which expires in two thousand and nineteen  d like to present to this board and hopefully this will take some actions on the not the end of the motions or in terms of our recommendations it's the beginning at least as dealers though we've made some progress in providing to this miller the vice chair of the traffic advisory committee and the representative from that committee to the high school traffic working group i'm jesse  working we have come up with three suggestions that we would like the board of selectmen to undertake by a vote and the ones that i think most people in the community feel very valid and really speak to providing better walking and extreme safety and hopefully better biking safety also but also help to control the traffic so the first one i'll just talk about all three and then  lots of people slide over to the sidewalk and drop the children off and then they cross on orchard street and some people coming westbound also do the same thing but fewer  sense it's already happening and since it's hoped that not that traffic will not necessary parents will not necessarily drive their children onto the site of the proposed high school  it seemed as though we should explore having a formal drop off location along concord avenue and so what we are recommending is that the board of selectmen and the office of community development and gage a consulting engineer who will look at the issue and come up with some suggestions as to how we could implement such an idea the second one deals with the neighborhoods in what we call befor school area it's it's a school street and goten street evaluation and as you all know a lot of work was time to provide better safety at the burbank school on school street it is being recommended that we look at the school street from temple to common street and think a and also yes from temple to go to  street and think about ways in which we might improve traffic safety on that area and then also looking at godin street from crocket avenue to washington story in terms of making sure that as people go up and down golden street that they keeping to a twenty five mile an hour speed wade and also that there is room for safe biking and walking on those streets and we're hoping that implementing some traffic mitigation and safety improvements will be really helpful for the children and for anybody right ladies with baby carriages and men with baby caring and people who you know want to take a walk so anyway that is and the third one which is also very important i think and it of implementing traffic mitigation ideas and pedestrian and bicycle safety if you go on those streets you notice that the time has done very little work to effect going down baker street i think it is that's ha any delineation of the streets right pete one of the bright and there and there is a prog projects planned for next year for that but looking at the neighborhood as a whole like and what the impacts might be on the study would also kind of include looking at the crossings at concord ave since students would be coming down from the burbank neighborhood to cross over and also looking at that crossing on brighton blanchard like right at the end of it injure so it would be comprehensively looking at it to make sure that we're not doing things to discourage walking and that we're doing everything we can to make it safe to walk in the neighborhood and this could include you know possible one ways things of that nature which are signed so and i think that the motions time that were drafted actually initially by glenn brought in nature so if you read them they seem somewhat bro specificity and i think that was intentional in that we don't look at traffic mitigation on school street and go to the street we want to test first with eastbound then we said well we do west want even though it seems like it's somewhat of a no brainer west palm beach front of the pond but we have a consultant look at these palm which is the more complicated traveling or drop off he creates some safety there consistent with i think we were looking at your own avenue as a potential design for that why would why why why would we look at the they hope to you and i can agree to move forward in direct when to move forward an expeditious way and we feel well that you know in the middle of or into that sort of the season here for a lot of construction the least we can hire a consultant to trees to try to look at these issues  where the task force is one of the most important challenges that we have as a town right now traffic more broadly and specifically the issues related to to the high school and particularly taking into account pedestrian bicycle ists students so i think  it's great that the committee is tackling this on the question of the of the drop offs so a consulting engineer working on that project would they recommend a test that some think that's what we would do that the yeah that's exactly the test that we'll i mean we can we can speculate in terms of the design right and then wait for this new school to be built perhaps which is two years from now and i think what we were thinking as well we need to sort of test this now is it workable and if it is something we want to test well how would we test it how would we design it right both on a temporary basis time and then one term i think you know the interest rate if you guys to be able to also put some of the stuff in practice with some of these complications so this is absolutely going to be a test drive good so i'm certainly certainly supportive of that i think that's a great great exercise the next to do support of as well i guess questions about whether or not we're also engaging the consultant to help us think that far i think there's something i think so and we're going to be the same consultant and we think so i mean i think we're going to need professional help on this i mean we can certainly talk about what kind of traffic mitigation we want raise tables things of that ok and then once you are the motion structured so that we're purely looking at issues directly related to school traffic or are these are they are they are broader and i mean look clearly you know the decisions you know with the future school in mind but there's also potentially some changes we could make right now i think so having done i think there was a thing that country right now waiting for two years where we like to like certainly the traffic medication i got on the street go out and and community development to evaluate school street from temple street to common street and go to street from concord to washing street for the purpose of implementing traffic mitigation in pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements second on favor and finally move responsibilities were and what kind of input they could make into this process because of course the working group really is a pulling together group that's not mean we don't have the capacity for making decisions about traffic and so forth that really is in the hands of other people but we are hoping to be able to pull together the groups that really are and volved and safety and so i put together this memorandum suggesting that the board of selectmen the high school building committee the school committee the high school traffic committee and then we realized that we also needed to include which i haven't yet the traffic advisory committee and planning board and we there were just some background facts that we had talking about the fact that the high school building committee has submitted designs for the new high schools to the a and they received approval we are going to have a vote for a debt exclusion on november sixth that we feel that there are issues that can be worked on by the high school working group  everybody commit to working on these issues while the project is ongoing and i think the concern that really got everything started was that there were a number of people in the community who felt that the issues of traffic safety and so forth and working with bill of alo on sorting out the language that the high school building committee would like to have in the memorandum and i think we've come to an agreement on that and so that's really joined and the school committee is still working on the language and they had some concerns about it and also concerned i think that we did feel that they had addressed safety in the past which of course i know they have and that was not the  now we come to the board of selectmen and these were listing some of the thoughts and ideas that we had talked about as to what the responsibilities would be of the board selectmen because basically everything does come back to the board of selectmen unless it is actually on the site of behavior it was held in committee right that's correct but also also keep in mind that we have to get through planning board approval as a building committee so sure it's sort of all together and so and this is such a nice opportunity to work together planning board has said these decisions they would support you know it's not the color of the building they're talking about driveways and parking and so forth so that's a very nice thing to just have as one group representing belmont as you said about superstar group and to get that going been talked about and reminds me that we've been talking about this sense of ember almost a this is the issues that will be working on today and these are the issues will continue to work on the future some of it might change but at least we commit stakeholders if you will that will confuse sort of work together and actually we are through the traffic working group of the broader group school building committee is listening i'm going to schedule a meeting for this friday ok if you can go over the revised language hopefully get it approved and then it goes back to our working group  consider making edits to current just like the building committee day bill and i spoke about your and we're having a meeting tomorrow working session that maybe we can address some of this and i may be great i just need this time on the fifth but i mean know i'm going to go through it in principle i'm supportive of i am a supporter of the work of the group and i think you guys have actually made a lot of progress of late which is really good and i think the key thing is that this work continues past november sixth and i think this does help to kind of reinforce the community in the town's commitment to that you know my one hesitation would be ensuring that we don't bind ourselves and appreciates not legal but even more morally bind ourselves to go down a path that we might you know upon reflection with new data in two months you know see is not particularly sort of appropriate so i would just want to make sure that it's an under again it's not it is not a it's not a legal document it's an understanding agreed  think we are saying that we are supportive of the and i think sort of you know morally or otherwise even though we can't be legally held to it and i would want to make sure anything we put in here we were generally comfortable with or we recognize that turn of events that a new consultant in the following week so is there just in terms of thinking about next steps is there a draft that you can send around yeah i think what might be helpful for you since i'm going to getting up to exactly very shortly which is ok any red lines and you can get it in advance and of traffic i agree have a twenty five mile an hour speed limit hardly anybody it has to at some some people do the no question but in moments of you know people are in a hurry and so full at that  so i think that somehow or other the town and traffic safety provides inconveniences for people if you can turn into a street from seven to nine no you can't you know get thirty five miles an go more than twenty five miles an hour it is an inconvenience it's inconvenient for the people who live in the town but we have also a lot of people who cut through the town now and we really need to make sure that they also will be  the time the speed limit because with out slower traffic if it just doesn't work so i don't know whether we can have a campaign to drive well i think one of the things that we concerns which are important ones in the context of the report that we're expecting in november from our consultant which is the town why the air traffic problems from which we hope to extract lesser and then our chair to come back and take a small recess so i think we have one other high school related topic which is the any oh he's not going to be part of that ok support zero net in g and some of the thoughts that are expressed i did have a couple of questions but was jacob but intent of this resolution that perhaps is or is not binding me understand that we have no authority over the high school campus at all nor the school nor do i or have any purview or direction over the high school building committee ecumenical i mean i'm not saying i don't support the resolution i'm just trying to say i mean it's great that the board can adopt this but again we have no authority over that that building what it will be  on the campus itself that was one of my questions i mean this is really a school committee issue and perhaps they're the ones that need to be voted a resolution i'm happy to support this time i just yeah i'm supportive i'm just trying to stay in that why the board needs  after two thousand and sixteen when a town meeting created the building committee it wasn't very long thereafter that the energy group reached out to us and said you know the referendum that the motion that meeting approved back in two thousand and  to explain that zero net energy is the operation of the building and and the utilities which i think partly go through probably the four selectman so i'm going to turn it over from there that's why it's not really building to the well the tilly's i think the totally the effort and that's why we've been building consensus and working collaboratively with the belmont high school building committee for a long time now on this initiative and they've from the getgo hired architect and consulting team that would help design a building and had the portfolio in the experience to design a building that would be zero net energy ready as as bill said it's really an energy happens in the operation of the building you can make it ready and then you have to actually operate is well exactly and so the there's three kind of well there's four key components to achieving zero net energy and these were some of the things that were presented in the panel that we had on the energy summit that bill thankfully put together that presented to the community and the first is to reduce energy consumption of the building and then there are some key components that then get you to use your energy so the geothermal system that's currently in the design and in the budget allows the building to run without the use of fossil fuels to heat the building you can use electricity through the heat pumps to do that and then to generate that electricity you need to bring that from renewable sources and so there's in the design and in the budget there's a solar array on the roof but there isn't sufficient space for that solar array to get all the way to zero net energy and zero energy means that on a on an annual basis you look at how much the building uses versus how much renewable energy you're generating to offset that consumption and there are specific proposal is that is considered a class d zero energy different classes being based on where you're generating that renewable energy class a would be if we could fit it all in the roof class d is really the last option but it's still a good option in the sense that you can then supplement what can be generated on site with the roof array by buying credits now that's in a lot of ways where the board of selectmen is leadership i think comes into play in this in this decision and in this community effort is to say as we operate the building do we want to consider buying these renewable energy credits the great part is there are other incentives at play those other incentives come from the state and they are to incentivize geothermal systems now depending on whether the building is zero energy or not you get a different amount of incentive for that geothermal system and that's an ongoing operating incentive so that increase in incentive that you get for the geothermal system operation by being as you're an energy building is larger than the amount you pay for the renewable energy credits to claim that value of a energy so it's there's a lot of financial movements and things that have to happen this and that's what i do every day that's my job so i come from that world it's kind of like being a tax accountant you know where you understand  understanding at this point just to clarify it is that by purchasing or otherwise allocating rex to this project it would be a net savings on an operating on an ongoing operating  incremental cost correct so we want to show the worst case financial scenario and still show that that was a cash flow savings but absolutely since belmont lights wreck purchases and wreck retirement is on a voluntary basis and as that intention of overtime actually grows to buying more of those for belmont lites retirement of those wrex there's nothing that says you can't count those as part of the zero net energy attributes for the high school because they're they are  not mandatory for belmont light so you're allowed to then count them towards the high school so the state would except for that increased incentive on the geothermal system operation and there's no sunset date on the incentives for the geothermal that's that's a lifetime opportunity for the school let me clarify that the belmont high school building committee has worked the state of massachusetts you must be a to confirm that they will not reduce our grant program for any incentive that we receive it's good to hear and that is you know get it all back you know one of the things i'm most thinking of is a lot of numbers in here and appreciate it the work you've done it sounds like you're you know clearly have the background and expertise is i'm supportive of this but i wouldn't mind having look at this as well because there's statements in here about thirty percent of us will in g use beaches building represents there's a statement here about net present value savings over five million to it specifically i mean i know you've done the work on it right so i just i just validate operation of high school and the school municipal budgets for energy so mark the belmont high school building committee has put together a lifecycle cost analysis for various various this is in the capital letter systems and so this is the system that was chosen that's where jacob  be very specific about what l that voted unanimously for last thursday and then exact wording says jacobs indicating was to endorse the idea of exploring efforts to achieve a zero net energy building plasty at the new school with thirty thousand or thirty year net present savings of over five million so i just wanted to be clear about what we the exact wording was of that meeting was thank you so mark if you'd like to have chris take a look at it  the end is really suggesting that the town you see in the last sentence explore the purchase of wrecks to achieve yeah and then there's one of those two you know bind us to do anything and i don't know if that would be a problem if you feel comfortable until you see the numbers come from the work that you facilities apartment but we can't direct me to laterally because we we're there co directed by only our town of ministry but also the trying trailers the superintendent school you know that directed by the school committee so we could adopt this resolution tonight but i think in order to get the other side of the coin frankly to give the skip school committee which i'm sure supports this because they sit on that high school building group as well i think you need to get them to adopt a resolution yeah i think it makes sense that i have to agree with uma yes they're all breathing happily yes we have eleven members and one is leaving and i know you've appointed someone know for january and thank you for doing that and they they represent the whole town we have a lot of them that are town meeting members and vote strongly when this issue a town meeting we try to cover all the bases there are about six thousand seniors sixty five and over and we service has said about forty percent one of the problems is gentlemen when people get to be seventy they don't think they're ready even seventy five they're not ready so we have to try to convince those people so one of the things we are working on is the computer network and having them learn about and having learned about and cell phones and all that stuff because maybe it will attract them outweigh but they're asked some great people there and there's so dedicated and there's so many volunteers that even the warren committee is surprised at how many volunteers we have because our budgets low considering what we do with the center and nab it does a great job so number it's all us well i just want to to further support the board and and talk about the great work that they do because it's an eleven person board and that seems like a large group but i have to say that when issues come up it works really effectively to make decisions on of you know timely manner i'll bring up an issue and different voices get heard in and decisions get made fairly quickly and the board is now working on renewing its mission statement because it's been thirteen years since that was done so i think it's great to update it and once that finalized obviously we will share that with you but so draft in in progress and the board has been very supportive committee it's a board but in many ways for example we just hired the new assistant director and the board was instrumental in that hiring process and it made for a really really good hiring process i have to say i mean resource department did an excellent job and with the board in put it was it was it was really excellent and the board supports our efforts and the of other ways they sponsor a staff appreciation luncheon once a year which really helps the staff feel that kind of support and and engage in all kinds of research for us for example the board recently surveyed a number of other senior centers and councils on aging to gauge you know what direction the board needs to go to in terms of you know long term planning so it's a very it's a very good engaged group that i feel very happy and supported by so  whether they get the tax write off or not write be there is a way i don't even i don't think they care some i don't know if you know if it's like putting it online oh in that regard oh if you're thinking beyond just the tax for the right offer programs i think i think it would be very helpful to i know that the town clerk's office has a mechanism to you know publicize volunteers for committees but i think actually that did emerge from one of our forms that people really do want to have access to volunteer opportunities all over the town so i think it would be great and i have i have requested actually that there be some kind of mechanism  website or something else so that seniors who yeah who want to you know that's already in the schools you know you're at department heads or various people post openings like a job opening but a volunteer opening could be online you could also print i think would be really help but again beyond the committees but something i think there's not a committee volunteers would be really good and obviously if we get all the volunteer help and people who are expert in their field to save us money in the long run so what we're looking at all of volunteers you had concerned i know some of us are some of the scene is leaving because of the taxes and then i happy that there's nothing that would doing for the now i know while him does if you're a certain age a tax is a pit different you know you pay less than if you do in belmont so that's they're out there oh yeah we're where where we have a wonderful transportation service through the council on aging and really i think it's been wonderful but there are seniors who need taxi service and unfortunately spring well is now pulled out of using their federal funds towards transportation which did provide seniors with access to medical appointments in the longwood area and boston cetera and we managed that money last year but they've have i said they've decided in part because of these cap companies that are going out of business like mchugh's and other reasons of their own so what we're all experiencing in the in the area is that these cab companies are really doing poorly and going out of business or providing a lot less service the ride sharing companies are coming in but they're not nearly as equipped to use seniors and disabled people and that's a program twice a week and gives us a purpose to get up and go someplace and to funnel more volunteer opportunities through see a way for seniors like that in town i think we would be equal they they cover everything they have book clubs and they have dancing and they have anything in every thank you i wish my seniors ok thank you for that when you say what can you do i said give them a little anything you know not go off something even two dollars on her because they really feel as though they're not being my feeling is you want we keep seniors in town because people like joe and i sit in the house and we don't have three kids running around and every time a house goes two or three kids came in i mean i love children i'm a grandmother and a great grandmother but we her will give us the format and style and support to think about feasible projects on the the domain of civic engagement or be  transportation and so forth and so now that we have an assistant director in place and i've gone back to completing the application already coming to you for a letter of support which will complete the friends just are unable to something you can see them in a house that's right there they can still engage but they just can't get out of the house or go places because they're only able to drive their car anyone as frankly perhaps it shouldn't be yeah oh yeah i think if there's things that we can do to to help you if you want to know how to qualify for being senior c s so you know you're right it's funny you say that because you know when you turn fifty which i turned fifty this is not a or a peak since starting now not as in people refused to join because  but no i'm not a retired person but they flood you with letters to the point where you finally just say enough already have to stop getting these i was so seniors in town my mom really never used it until my dad passed away she was eighty three at the time so she  you know we we had my famous stories we did transportation survey and you know when do you think you'll need transportation services and we've we've got answers from people sent this to the rec commission chair and vice chair for their review to consider a rec director and what we're going to do is use funds in my town mistreated budget for that was left over from the assistant t but having them for us major focus ninety percent of their focus be on recreation and that would be able to then address some of my concerns which is you know being two places at once and also the  wreck issues that we are encountering it would take jay away from rack so he can focus a little bit more on things like that and we are actively recruiting people that are in the field of recreation that could maybe fit all the parameters that we need so the job description which is quite detailed i had like two comments on it one which was were said organizational community connections as it mobilized community support establish mutually beneficial partnerships i think it should be something in there about coordination with the school departments because there's such a they control fields in the town controls field and there should be some cross communication between the other was on under three hundred finance you don't have to hire a contractor position to fix right but also come out of the tunnel minister's office when i think elevates the wreck but actually to a higher level they will find someone on the standpoint i mean so we don't want to do an executive director for recreation reporting to you or the board if we were to do that it would have been for a short period of time why because i haven't been able to figure out how to put myself into you know understand them point but we did the recreation plan the intent was to reestablished possession that we had when the former director left many years ago we put that under it becomes a funding issue at that point the department of public works and now you know as we sort of work on this recreation treaty to plan and the fact that now we've expanded our oversight and control and if it makes for a better job title quote unquote that we get better candidates with no extra money all the better i just want to get heard if you feel you can find someone under those parameters to do it that's a whole separate  you know i actually talked to patrice about this last week when my voice was even worse than this and rejections because you couldn't speak exactly how it went to very i think i think she is a good plan and in many ways i think we might have greater success in because this will be a permanent position rather than a contract position and as long as we get some key objectives i'd like to see addressed communicate better communication coordination with the schools is one of the things i'd really like to see as long as we have somebody coming in who can  i mean i think one of the things are really missing is the you know the the vision thing the person with the vision to help drive the new programming and as long as we get that then i'm going to be a good solution the other goal is to look at creating an enterprise fund for the recreation commission i know the recreation is very supportive of that and i believe that that is after some of the conversations we've had that is a absolutely doable thing super you know i think this is really great and hopefully works but if i was getting candid i think it'll work work but i think that you would you've addressed the funding issue in elevating it and making it permanent all the all the things we were trying to hit all those plans we get and that's really really clever very clever next to be the second part which is the main attraction and possible approval an update on the recreation a strategic plan tell us where we are yeah actually so we have an update  for the recognition last week i think we've made a tremendous amount of progress in some areas more than others there are some areas where the vision thing would be useful we really focused a lot of the financials i think the one area in general i've seen a lot of growth in the recreation department the time i've been on the commission and i've seen the commission itself improve and it's in i think we've become more effective and i think the one area where i'm focused is improving communication so making sure i better understand what's going on at the rec department on a regular basis and one of the components of the strategic plan is getting on the board of selectmen agenda camille enough that we've done that tonight but you know at least a couple times a year so that we can we can update you guys and let you know what's going on you know this goals were really do improve programming improve utilization of resources and to improve cost recovery look for revenue opportunities and there are a variety of ways to do that in the plan there were four key priorities establish identity tell our story so this is a lot of communications related stuff stuff and improve physical condition so that's there's a there's a software package that i'll talk about for a few minutes and maintain an update our existing infrastructure so i'll start with the with priority three because that's really where we've done a huge amount of work we've implemented the max galaxy software this is something jamie saavik introduced it interacts with our financial you know with our accounting software so we're able to better track costs across all fields if you want to rationalize your your fees for various programs if you want to have better cost recovery it's impossible to do that if you don't know how much you know per hour a soccer field costs we've been able to do that for the facilities under direc department control so that's really primarily you know the rink which is on its last legs as tom knows several of the fields mainly p q growth in and town field and i'm want them to i want to include all recreational facilities so it would be great snow for the higginbottom pool even though it's going to be a moot point for the next couple years i'd like to know what you know what that costs are we setting our fees appropriately for dolphin swimming adult swim and i think there's a real opportunity i think we can also you know again sticking with the coordination theme from it you know harrah's feel needs to be replaced every ten years for another million bucks and we could if we c better utilize that get programs that are that are actually you know paying fees on the field i think we can recover a lot of the cost particularly if there were evolving funder around that so i think this is the you know we have a an opportunity to especially with a rec director to coordinate all of these in a central under one person we can do that without him imposing any burden on the schools he told one person i need to reschedule a game i need to field and that person deals with any any conflicts  and make sure that's available i think that it's a priority of the one of our priorities at the recognition to look for revenue opportunities and that's more something we're focused on in the schools which have to focus on the a building in high school we  think so i think that i think that's a that's a key area anyway talking about the software a little more it's it includes a scheduling module would be great to have a centralized calendar so we want to be able to coordinate programs across across all of the different groups  do that i would point out we've established revolving funds for maintenance and for fields so over the last year or two we've also made priority under this good progress  established mutually beneficial partnerships we're talking about how we can interact with other organizations in the community to bring new opportunities we have eleven programs right now three of them are new chop shop kitchen we're going to have cooking classes for children at their belmont location we want to expand that to adults chop shop hitchin is a great little organization my daughter actually did a summer job for them once fred astaire dance studio we've cut ballroom in latin dance classes for all ages so this is the way we can kind of leverage some of these other organizations in the community to bring new opportunities and new programs for the rec department we also want to establish more formal memorandum of understanding for some of the different organizations we've completed one with watertown for the sport program and we have others in the works and then the other key goal here was was focusing on communication including updating you which were obviously doing today know we're reaching out to various media improving our relationships with more of the traditional media trying to get more into social media establishing a basket of programs so that we can get the word out a little bit better and we want that communication to be two ways as well so ways to get feedback on programs earlier on so that we can learn about issues with those programs and resolve them quickly priority for maintaining and updating our existing infrastructure i mean one of the lines i've already i'll just read it and then we've already pretty much talked about it in collaboration with the schools establish a philosophy and policy as it relates to use and scheduling oversight permitting meat and center of town parks and facilities i think it really makes a lot of sense that we just treat all of the recreational assets as you know under one centralized structure whether it's through agreements or whether it's through their director you know there are lots of ways to do that but better coordination i think is helpful and then the last one was researching the effectiveness inefficiencies that might result from merging it's said in the plan merging various things i think we're really talking about a coordination of efforts between rec adult education where you could talk about a merger the bligh berries so that we can coordinate and and provide not duplicate our efforts so i think actually we've made a tremendous amount of progress i think that increased staffing  full time people at the rec department has been a tremendous help particularly with chris gus tello who's looking more into social media and had on a lot of the media stuff so i think it's i think we're on a good changing the recreation department and the reorganization that we just finished last year i appreciate it i think you know it sounds great and thank you for your efforts i mean you're right you're on the move and i think that's wonderful and i think that i think with the advent of new schools and some of the new facilities that we're putting into the field etc we should be working to make sure that we really are maximizing that rate you guys are trying to champion and secondly you mentioned adult education department potentially to do a lot more than you know i did a study for the school department to think about what we might do for community education and a number of towns have actually merged community education recreation which is something that we might think about in the future but the point is that you can find what you might call recreation types of programs in almost every department in the town that offer s more adults and an adult education community education so there is a lot that can be done by sharing each of these areas each of these departments has trouble publicizing  their offerings everybody's got to do it independently there's all sorts of overlap sometimes things can exactly the same program could be this happened this summer where a movie was offered at the library and through recreation in the  think it was on the same day you know so the coordination can really help and having somebody who is in charge who can do that is going to be hugely a huge asset i think we talked about this is something we might consider but we talked in the when we did that when we did the community education report what we did is we brought together the all the different town departments and some some pri places like powers and talked about all the different ways we could work together and there was it was great people never even met each other before so i think at some point we need some kind of advisory committee that holds all these different groups and because they don't want to duplicate just it's really hard to know what's going on everywhere and there are there may be some ways of working together with community education there's no staff there's no direct not a director of community education either and that makes it really difficult we looked at i looked a lot of other towns twelve other towns and everybody else as a director so really well done yeah we don't have we have someone who we bring it was also the head of adult was also on the community education oversight board so you know it be a lot to do that because we have we have community education to the schools and we have recreation  on the front it's glossy it's just like everything else you see if you go into the belmont caf you'll see a pile of of advertisements for brochures from other towns don't want doesn't have anything there these other  continue continues to want to participate in the public private partnership talks over the over the rank and so far as far as i know we've been on involved so is that yes you and you and i should sit down as we discussed in the hall ok we were missing paperwork or we did you have questions and there was no one here to answer the questions so it wasn't a matter of us not want to do we just wanted to know i understand we've been there was a hole in our rules that we have to be given all these different documents and through and have in front of us which to me like all the information's not yet so i sat down with frank on friday and i explained to frank that the a b c c v choir's that any alcohol served outside the has to be clearly delineated there used to be a physical barrier so there won't be so frank not talked about how they would be any liquor served out so i mean just hernan jarrah jennifer powers north or palmer devon brown of martha south brown and kathleen rush who've all put money together and raised eight hundred dollars after we basically look at the mail frequently we've been getting some donations and this is our second set of half of our money that we've received into by these signs at four hundred dollars apiece if you were in your neighbors would like to chip in we can't promise that this particular dollar will go to that particular of thank you all discussion and possible vote fall town meeting warrant this was an item that we were so we don't know if the warrant was ready it went to do it you went to town council today so i'm waiting his feedback i think is if you know if you remember we have to do it this week or else we're going to not have enough time to do it this week yes so there we were meeting thursday night for the incinerator site that's right so we can put it on the agenda for the incinerator taint opening it tonight and closing it to a day time is my question my my feeling was you know i can say what i said last year which is my general philosophy has been that i have no problem with citizens petitions i think they're the foundation of democracy in the gray things however it's really a spring town annual town meeting when we have multiple nights to bring it on and we'll hash through it as long as it takes these fall town meetings if we even have them or for very discrete issues and this is the marijuana moratoriums expiring if the high school passes we have to allocate the money i mean there are things that half the time we get many articles that we have to space seven right now i know it's scheduled for three nights is it really going to go three hundred i think it will  seventeenth and then we can vote on eight yeah yeah that should be planets enough time i mean i put out there people have fun citizens petitions obviously that's the time to file them that i'm sorry that they can unless it's i would i would urge unless it's extremely pressing it would be yeah who is open late night on monday which we started in june so they're getting activity actually i think the clark sophos is showing the most activity on the monday night especially when september up in regards to the late mondays if you can see starting september tenth which we've suspected because the summer is you know the summer we knew that's what we want we didn't want to stop it at labor day we wanted to see what great idea yeah i would say the union took a vote on the tenth of october in regard to this and they voted in favor to keep them late night monday as we do this is an experiment one of the more i was there so i guess what i'm asking is to extend the late night and  december twenty fourth item came up in the union contract it's listed that the s b a you which is the clerical union works four days four hours on december twenty fourth some a twenty fourth is a monday so we would  building closed saturday sunday open for i was on monday and then close again on tuesday what i propose and what i'm opposing to the union i'm waiting to hear some feedback from them is to have a late night on monday the week before and into stay a little later on that friday afternoon and then to a hard close on monday i've also talked to chris worry about it and he's thinking about doing some somewhere there a lot of folks to celebrate a holiday like they are going to be around in the afternoon anyway residents traveling or you're preparing for that evening who just have to really advertise well to know if i were trying to file something and rushing i was going away i want to rush to get some application in for a client of mine and i showed up when you were close on some unexpected day i'd be get well agree because then you start for the holiday week and you go into new years completed its charge this is the new committee the in so the idea we have to be pointed for people we have two more left to appoint and so we need to come up  tomorrow we have a lot we have one too we have a lot of people here one two three four five six seven eight nine ten people for two slots we have a lot of really good  we got all the resumes in there for some more people more things have come in since we last met but i think at this point we have i don't think we can go wrong we have a really good group of people here i know the chair had submitted are not the chair but the think she's someone that can reach out into the community i think it somewhat frankly that i would i mean i thought it was wonderful working with her on the delta issue if you remember that is a bundle of energy and that she was able to sort of bridge that gap and i think there is going to be a need to bridge of time sometimes it's important get a different point of view and what do you think i mean i think it is critical that we find folks that can gauge the community i think it's good for or not i was in the early stages and i think we're going to be ok time i do i think the three of us if we you know provide some you know reach out to that community with patrice who's already done that i think we're going to be ok i really do and i think russ the way he has chaired it whether he's going to be the sure or not i hope he is and vince in the in their approach to this in a the the six appointees from last time in this will be michael chick durso vincent stanton bonnie friedman so i also know as far as you brought up the root and such i mean as far as the root of the issue i was at the the i've been going to some of these meetings in the the issue of the root whether it gets changed or not i think is going to take some study because some of these ideas were brought up by mr burke about this new possible pedestrian bridge in cambridge an are we going to link up with that or not and we'd have to go back for changing the route or not change we would have to talk to the state we have talked to the school committee we have to look into what's going on in cambridge and i think we really ok i don't think we're ready to always make that up at this time i would like to see if we could maybe do something other november nineteenth meeting in that regard if there is if we have that information patrice by that immediately i second that i guess one question before we vote they don't have a post it needs them no i think which i think russ last time said that he did not actually precisely because he was expecting us to  appoint these people and he didn't even want to set up a meeting because he didn't know whether they would exist or not so it's but like you said you have the run the reasons we started the down this road of the new committee is that even russell said we're pretty charges we're pretty much accomplished and you great and when we accept we voted the route to accept their recommendation it was with the proviso that we reserve the right to make further changes should additional facts arise at the time we had no idea we could do the alexander avenue underpass as a standalone project for him so things did change not to say the route will change because we need more information but that's i mean we can do that at our next november meeting like on the nineteenth or maybe even in december in the gym let's not get done now you know whatever works for you and i want to say i want to make sure we get the facts because full members a vote and it's got the associate member who doesn't vote but for space in the discussion and so that that person is already on involved in this been hearing the cases at least temporarily bumping that person up for the remainder of the term  from the belmont business study i started meeting as a board knows this is a short term committee whose charge is to look at economic development in town and to recommend a charge for permanent economic development committee to that end i've been able to successfully secure funding twenty seven thousand five hundred dollars for consulting assistance to the m e p c the grammy crest is attached this grant will assist the business community developing the final deliverable so select when we're looking regionally for best economic development is great to have a committee with a budget so they can actually i think this board needs to be a part of that process because we work really long and hard do a lot of analysis you know gradually we decided to withdraw our still think that decision was a someone i will as the liaison to the school committee into the school mistress and i'll follow up and try group there was some question as to whether or not we had to have a north south question resolved and i think everybody all the way comfortable that we would put this forward survive that way and that it won't be discussed really until sept spring anyway so right and then he to work so i don't have the data from this past weekend but what is this thing that is a right box  additional or pick ups like that call us like a pilot trash control program in the parks and we collected fifty one bags fifty five gallon equivalent bags of trash mean fifty one fifty one bags over a weekend into two weekends five days in two parks you know in all the parks is that more than usual we have no gauges to like we can trash  well i guess we'll have to just sort of keep an eye on the flow of this that's exactly what we're going to do till the end of there and the rats and see whether this new barrel i mean we're seeing ten summer things pizza boxes just laying up against utilities has awarded national grid to halt all non emergency in compliance work pending the results of a review of the company's safety practices and dish and the department is requiring national grid to have an inspector on location for work that could lead to let i just want to put this out there that there's really no formal order from the pew that we have but people are starting to notice when the crews are out it's because we get calls because people see in the paper th your the in order to do we want you to pick one we need to hear from the public directly you know because some people who might have chosen one of the ones that have been one of the choices is no longer on the table i want to see what they what they what they're in favor of but the ones that are left and then we'll have to think about it and do more analysis and my goal that by the end of the year to two so is anyone presenting any of the aides that i have the environmental engineer coming back to offer information  glenn gave a picture of the map of the place and then maybe just live with the remaining five items and then and if any of the people who present any of the bike skate people chris roy maybe for the solar we can invite some people to briefly kick it off just so it's a good idea and know where we are and i think we did that last time and it really helped the conversation i met with glenn today in the planet's just to have a brief slide presentation then open it up for comment because i think it could be it could be another long meeting just so you know but the other two items