then we'll have a public hearing on the application from below be a conveyance of transfer over one life one of your license then to public hearings for national grid approval requests from boma center business amongst ourselves to decide whether we do extend as well as amendments that have been made to the of the day and other documents and i have just as we have another executive session is act is that plan david can we play that ok i thought perhaps we evening with your kind of mystery report so to begin community announcements saw the only one that i have is week from tomorrow on august thirtieth two thousand and sixteen from sixty eight thirty p m at the cherry middle be used for the meet the much so that they would any background on this you know this is actually very generous of washington i think me belmont does solicit requests for donations to help offset some of the cost ok another thing current so belmont carwash was generous enough to donate nine hundred seventy five dollars to defer some of the out of pocket costs that will be incurred for next tuesday's event printed materials and we have to accept that  approval of an entertainment license application from the time of the only losing ice cream he is seeking permission to utilize a projector to show children's movies on the exterior wall that faces to movie theaters are pretty cold in the summer months so it's kind of somewhat the same so any i don't have any issues with this to even questions or comments i think it's a wonderful thing to do so they have approval of the entertainment license application from so moved second on favor i just to clarify it's on friday evening from seven thirty p m to nine thirty pm during the month of june through september so perhaps it's been going on already and will and state primary september eighth thursday polls will be open from seven in the morning until eight p m in our usual eight precincts seven location so we'll need to give that approval for september eighth if you don't oh yes i'm here today but the more people were actually on the radio trying to explain it yes i wonder if you could go over that short so there are four political parties now in massachusetts most people don't realize that they think they only concentrate on the top two the democratic and republican but there are two other parties they are the green rainbow party and the united independent party in massachusetts they are recognizing in addition there are i think it's thirty or thirty one the separate political designations in the old days the only people who could vote in primaries were people who are enrolled in a particular party that is not the case anymore so in massachusetts if you are a member of one of those parties you may vote only in that party's primary so you if you're a democrat you may only take a democratic ballot if however you are on unrolled or affiliated in the independent voter not to be confused with united independent party if you're an independent voter you may choose which one of those four ballots you want on any given election and it does not change or a moment at all last march we had the presidential primary which i think is when you're referring yes the presidential primary the state also allowed people who are holding those other thirty political designations to act as if they are on a roll or independent voter so those folks can vote in primaries for the first time in two thousand and sixteen and they may choose any of those four ballots and so that's where the confusion came in lesser than you know yet and in belmont we have one person who's a member sixteen communities ballots will be available same way absentee ballots will be available before hand so people who are not able to be in town on that day or sick or for some other reason they can come into the office downstairs and vote for that as well those ballots will be available i think on monday next month and then there are by the way to committees just so you know that are active actively have filed in town  finance says required so there will be activity we presume for both yes and no know and then the third election which is coming up all these keeping us pretty busy downstairs november eighth the presidential election we are getting there were lots of people come in and register vote and let people requesting absentee ballots this time for this is the very first of biennial entitlement which will will be allowing early voting which is no excuse after reading will be allowed in the commonwealth the first time before the november eighth election which david alluded to briefly effective october twenty fourth anybody who wants to vote early may do so it's a little bit different than voting absentee mostly it's an entitlement because the constitution of that come off as not allowed no excuse absentee voting so the election reform law came in a arrangements there it'll be voting here town hall every day monday through friday of mondays and fridays will be open until five thirty five and tuesday wednesday thursday of the two weeks will be open till caves so eight to eight and will be open on saturday as well to let so the trustees are we meeting on the nineteenth and david i'm assuming therefore no different in this evening all interested parties will be notified we were of little bit before six p m for the public hearing on the other cation form we have a number of these are all public hearings so we do need to we can't begin them until that point in time but we can go to the six twenty agenda topic was someone from burma said it was going to be here david you know where that ok so we have an approval every question about what sort of business association to have a welcome to the new belmont center on september twenty fourth two thousand and sixteen from five p m to eight p m what a terrific idea yet i saw this over the weekend i thought this is a wonderful idea and so the belmont center business association is seeking permission to close leonard come green time great always just to be clear obviously that the landscaping components would be one of the last components that get done and that includes the delta delta more than likely the driveway will be open the delta wonderful more than likely would be fenced off to allow the landscaping to take root so but other than that the project will be completed ok great where's the horse  because it should be closed i mean i would think that more street would be closed and i mean i think all the streets are different than the town they all of the streets are full of them one thing i did see here is that we it will end before the fire station so in front of the fire station that w an executive session june twenty fifth regular meeting july twenty eighth two thousand and sixteen executive session just catches a step they were i pretty much there's a few outstanding but we're pretty much kind of ok we are transcribing and one meeting we are like ok so that isn't them so do i have any comments on the june twenty first two thousand sixteen executive session minutes chairman i'd just like to comment that i think it's great that these meeting minutes or as current as they are because some of the things that come for force tonight a good example some of these executive questions time right the war committee is doing research and information gathering with regard to the ballot question on september twentieth with regard to the role of minuteman so that is a listing of that so i think the agenda the agenda will try to keep the agenda as small as possible straight for me there so i think the superintendent can provide that information to you on hopefully will be next week so i'm not sure i'm not sure why our committee will be meeting before oh i see ok right with the superintendent i think it would be good for us to hear league night too but i wouldn't if you think it's important and necessary we can meet and some morning you have to labor day to really air this out a little bit more but you guys think well i have a question for the the minutemen committee  camera makes sense to air this out talk about you know i'm always concerned about the segregation of duties and you know different bodies and i think we need to you know have an independent view of this and then i think there's also you know so you have the school committee sitting out here you got to work committee over here you know the board of selectmen here and then you have the legal women voters in forming and then we have two groups that the pro and the kind of groups are going to be informing the electorate so there's find a morning for all of us houses or try to schedule that and the minute we're working group to come in and really just discuss that issue you know that because you know we we stand behind whatever  failure point of view on the matter i think it's in the water then and then the night scenes like the invite you know the working group members to come again as we debate the liberators but that's less than twelve hours before the polls i understand that but but unless you want to just vote can basically in the last packet we gave you the campaign finance laws and regulations of advisory so basically we are you are less in cumbered then town officials are in terms of your ability to provide your opinion ok so what do we do with our opinion once we vote you can be public whether you can talk to people about it and you can't use tout you can't use government resources it support it or against the ballot question so as an individual  out a letter saying we voted that that would be utilizing i believe a town council so your ideas here there would be using public resources to get the resources in support or against about it you've for example cannot print out fifteen thousand fires a mail them using public funds however you could provide information that's public information that was discussed at a public meeting that's available to the public can can we post a statement on the website i believe we can in a limited respect whatever they said to do but i hope that they do take a public position either way not looking to sort of whatever they will be ok ok so i think that takes is that the other so we have got a memo from mr weiss so we w go through that jack as you know has we appointed as our school committee representative and has made public at this point his opposition to the building meet with other towns to try to negotiate a change in the building project you know came apparently clear that they mean that we had in arlington which all of the other towns were represented with was the data that was the twentieth or something like june twentieth in arlington it became apparent that belmont was standing alone in opposition to the building project and we had no choice but to let the other member towns decided at that point that there was no choice other than to move forward will need to be touched or anything like that you don't intend to get into cheeses or anything like that so just everybody today we've submitted that application to the board so i think the establishment that say right now they have this kind of same license and maintain approach me sixty feet more or less of six inch gas main insurance street belmont from the existing six inch gas main at broad street easterly to host am a fifty five for a new gas  yeah some mr chair what we've been trying to do and have been doing with the national grid is to coordinate this work with your approval today we've are making sure that this work will be done before the final application will be as you will say you you're very confined in the way you can solicit your business because again there is an efficiency here but if someone chooses not to do that they choose not to do it but there is some kind of restriction on marketing through the state house back in like two thousand and eight zero two even before that so you know we can't put pipe in the ground if it doesn't get use we have to pay the cost of that back to the rate payers so that's why that's not a lo thing if they reach out to one stone we send them the package and tell them how to go about it but you know i know you do you know just it's counterintuitive that you can actually market when you're putting a line in but you know i just was waiting i think with unfortunately many folks that it's a different division ok but this is to install and maintain approximately sixty feet what does the word maintained mean and whose whose is it is that within your group responsibility or somebody else's or is well you know you have you have your new gas mains and then you have your maintenance crews you have and there's three different kind of leaks and grade one is an emergency leak we work on it and we before we even get a permit and a great tool leak has to be completed in i think a year and they monitor it and a grade three leak they don't repair they just monitor it they drive over it with a closed trucks with the cops on him to leak you may or may not fix it as well as the idea but what we're putting in is plastic and the reason for all these leaks that we have everywhere those are  these gas mains that were trying to replace everywhere that's that's the issue and that's what we're trying to do in every city in town i say so the likelihood that we'll see that kind of level three league of low that amounts to well everything no comes in forty foot lengths ok and when they when they puts they put a mill some together so by the time it is over you just you just have one connection to the steel o so before even the gas goes in we put pressure in the in the gas main of at least ninety pounds for twenty four hours so if it comes up at ninety three pounds we leave it next day we take it off it's got to be ninety three all we have to go find out why not go i  think that's great that the new materials are preventing the level three leaks just one more follow up and that is that what are you going to hook these plastic pipes up to you hook it up to one of those nineteen zero five installations or not but while t ok with that we're going to go into executive session to consider the purchased exchange lease of value real property because i as a chair of the clear that  the closing date in many comments for many residents that are here as well any questions so without a motion to which is exactly for stated purpose so are mental you that existing leases you know there's a as i mentioned earlier in the presentation you start with a checklist so to speak that you have to to run through and run to ground and we've done  think a very good job of doing that you know it's certain components you know are our steps you don't have you don't release a consultant and then thirty days later you automatically get a response back you you release a consultant by way of example they do their diligence which you know i'm you know i'm personally not qualified that's why we have you know environmental consultants traffic consultants etc that work for us they dig into the information that's available to them provided by us provided by the seller that takes time so so not having somebody on site certainly doesn't mean that that works not occurring meeting with attacks you know those come those discussions went on in those meetings and those engagements went on throughout the timeframe almost from the day after you know we entered into our diligence period so you know once we get you know everybody up to speed and you're absolutely right this is a complicated project it takes some time to get and we knew that going in and it takes some time to get the information conveyed to the consultants for them to report back and then for us to determine a course of action the course of action may be there's nothing you know we're satisfied with the information we have to the course of action maybe you know this is an insurmountable issue we're not going to spend the money or the time or the effort to pursue this we're just going to pull the plug at this point in you don't want that to happen we didn't allow that to happen here we had to do a series of additional follow up work in order to satisfy our requirements so you know as i say we've committed significant resources from the timestamp point from a monetary standpoint  i did not prepare a timeline associated with you know each one of these steps again it's something that we do in the course of business this project has had my attention certainly the attention of the people that i work with so you know we did not anticipate being in this position we want to be mindful of the the time frame and i think you will see  what would be from there so from there we're going to formally engage the construction manager we vetted a number of general contractors over the last number of months we will begin the process finalizing the architectural drawings there they're well developed drawings at this point however they're not what we consider to be construction documents are structurally finalized those will have to go out to the market to be priced final we can have it we have very strong budgets at this point but we need to get those wrapped up we need to get the the the drawings in a position that we can submit for a building permit and be able to i know their foundation permit had been previously applied for but we need to get those drawings further along in order for us to submit for building permit and we need to make sure you know the ramp plan is in place has been filed there's a thirty day comment period after that is the remedial action for the environmental we have a number of steps that we need to take i think ultimately our objective is is obviously to be in the ground as quickly as we can we are you know we do intentionally make sure that we're dotting r i's and cross had ts i don't mean to say that over and over again but you know we're sponsible developer we're not going to rush we have a sense of urgency but we're not going to rush just to start  understand the time constraints in the time sensitivity we want to get in and use the phrase in the last meeting heads in beds i mean that's our objective is to get in the ground i had to support it based on where we are today and what i forsee over happening over the next few months that you know we would begin to see some additional activity out on the site at the end of this year beginning very beginning next year now whether that's demolition and starting the excavation piece part of that's going to be contingent upon you know our finalizing some of the best option we have left if not the deal just dies and then we're back to square one and from my point of view and i appreciate you come it's about it being underwhelmed another thirty day extension plus a careful of days is something we i can live with but after that probably not the that think the project and fortune does not move forward we're back to square one without any tax revenue and with a hole in the ground for several years so i think it's in the best interest of belmont i'm as equally frustrated we've been dealing with this for quite some time we're told brothers entered the scene bill we were very happy about that because of who we have been dealing with for a number of years i felt as though i'm told brothers are pros if you get the project on i still believe that even with this extension request tonight i think the reasons for that as we've learned through the environmental issues and some of the other matters appreciate the fact that a company your size needs to sort of as you say dot hopefully that's it and that we are able to move forward to get your special permit extension from a planning board we close out or before the thirtieth of september and we're off and running for a project that will be in place in balmer for the next  he came back then another month asking for more days probably not i think most people would say it should be absolutely not ok so but i want to follow up on what it's like in baghdad he was asking is there still a possibility that the whole project might fall apart between you know either just are the resident no negotiations just routine are they just dotting i's and crossing t's or is there still an army running hurdles could decide that they're not moving forward and i don't that's still while they could decide not to move forward but based on this question of the negotiation negotiations we've been having specially with and we've been meeting as you know with noted from our agenda several changes you know changes that i talked about there in the parking management agreement where there's been a lot of back and forth through our town council and toll brothers town council and we toll brothers in terms of getting a doc mr point that we as a board in principle a comfortable with that being said you need to dance right so the toll brothers could decide before thirty to back out then we're done but we didn't see anything at this point based and i asked that same question the georgia executive session tonight and george's it's a necessary ask but it's not it's certainly not one we're making lightly and it's certainly not one we would be making if we didn't intend to continue to move forward on the project and will any more  absolutely we opposed the document so everyone will have an opportunity to sort of view what what will be in place and other than maybe some housekeeping things that i think at this point the board is in a position to we've spent a firm a time not george's but half of his career of the last several months on this that we don't dissipate over see any major amendments to the of the that's why we've agreed to post them and look i just the folks in the in the  the clear that it would be detrimental to me publicly we can't negotiate a deal with twenty four thousand residents here you voted us into office to do what we think is best for boma i believe this is what's best for both money because if we don't close if we decide not to extend the deal guys on friday and from my point of view i don't think that's the best for belmont i have a high degree of confidence we will close on the thirtieth and if we don't that's unfortunate judith yes you know you'd start ou what i guess i'm judith finally you started out with a deficit of good will from the community now let's say everything goes all right and you do manage to close in a month what specifically are you going to do to reach out to the community keep us informed so that we think this project might go somewheres and we don't feel as though we're sitting around looking at a s question too thank you question and i had talked to two of those allison in previously about updating you know at this point there are still a number of moving pieces that we're we're focusing in on those those again the schedule that was alluded to before but we've agreed we agreed at the last course like a meeting that we would engage and keep the community informed i think we said on the minimum monthly basis of the area the trash the litter the human waste people damaged cars parked there you know homeless people potentially living there really it's become a it's just not about people we see things going on there because there's no respect for the neighborhood that they are really going to take a project on and be serious about working with the community you know we should be starting tomorrow what it was a couple of dumpsters and just getting all the junk out of there i don't know where those cars are goal and i'm not trying to put words in their mouth was the come here and provide some type of reasoning why an extension is being requested which clearly was not provided the fact that they're saying that as a fortune five hundred company they spent a few thousand dollars on console dance and legal fees and something else is zero reassurance either clearly have the means to do that as a board was supposed to represent me as you said you can't have twenty four thousand people in a room so we elect you to represent a us  have don't feel that i am being represented in any way shape or form i don't think that this project is the best option for obama there's so much development going on everywhere that you look you blink there's buildings going up i can't believe that we are accepting and pushing forward a project because we think that there's nothing else without knowing if there is something else out there it's just mind boggling that we continue on this path and we can't find another solution and we just think this is it it's going to remain this way for eight ten years or timeframes that have been thrown out there no one knows that you could put this out for a bit tomorrow and have five bits you may not you mayn't do that but without knowing that it just seems unfair to the residents of this town to continue to pursue one project one option when there could be something tremendously better out there that i think you understand this right we only own the parking lot we don't own any of the other pieces of property so it's not our development is the star owns the c v s property all the other property we only own the parking lot so we're not in the business of sort of pursuing development we're here to sell the parking lot pursuant to radio that we made with the store to do a development so it's not like we're looking to develop that all we did was simply sell the parking lot and that's what we're doing here and we've used this purchase and sale of the park you know as leverage with mr starr and now we're told brothers to get the kind of development that we think is consistent with the overlay district that was established so it's not like we're looking board selected doesn't develop we simply react to what developers want to do within this community and the only thing that we're left with if we don't extend is we own the parking lot we get a bunch of money put in the bank and then mr straw the decide what he wants to do with the wind we have no authority over the west what he wants to do with that he would then need to decide if you think there's a better option perhaps there is i don't think there is frankly i think mr starr has options are likely for the development perhaps for something different than what's there today i think this development as we vet it over the number of years the planning board and you worked in that when you were chair the police board is a terrific development it's a mixed use development for belmont but residential and commercial it will completely revitalize christian square in this community and create additional substantial tax revenues for the town and the other comments right horn road to you so i have to agree with all the residents who have stood up and said so many great important in real things about this whole project i was doing a little math and i remember it was just over nine years ago we sat in a neighbor's dining room and looked at schematics of chris starr's proposal nine years plus so it's a long time and it's it's kind of doing a number on the neighborhood and the town and the board of selectmen and the planning board and everybody who's been involved with us it's a it's a big long depressing process i think most of us can agree at this point because now we're looking at yet another extension and cetera tied so i know all right we're looking at september thirtieth another extension but if toll brothers would like to do a little bit more do due diligence i have to agree with steve carlene the appearance what's happening there the decay there are over twenty cars parked in that c v s lot the weeds that started in the tops contaminated hole are now full grown trees it's awful so like most things in life you get used to it you drive by it every day you don't really think twice but now i'm thinking two and three times it's not ok to have twenty cars parked at the end of our street that appeared to figure out where those cars are coming from and how to maybe move them is it ok for us to contact c v s or star or something because once you are in such a gray area right now about who's responsible for what i think the immediate of what can be done now today maybe tomorrow instead of even september thirtieth let's do something now about you could showing that we care in the project my actually  with this project as i see the amendment he's going to be holding a commercial property right let him be a responsible property armor please push him to be a proper proper property owner and take care of his properties like he hasn't done insists again i just want to touch on one thing so i understand this is a difficult decision i understand we're kind of like the lobster in the pot and the water keeps getting that he keeps getting turned up but  we were here in march and there was a discussion about no further extensions and i'm hearing this same words tonight and it will always be difficult to pull the plug on a project like this because you always hope you're almost at the finish line and i guess my my challenge my request in my plea to all of you guys figure out where that point is because it's very possible toll that's not putting any money down is going to blow the september deadline and you've stated here tonight that you're going to pull the plug it's not easy to do in september it's not easy to do now how do you get to that point because we have a great real estate market going now yes star still owns a property things are going up everywhere property values are going up barring waits rates are still love we have opportunities for someone else to move in we don't want to blow that timeline by getting strong along by a company that doesn't end up executing they do it in a month great but you guys got to reach a point where you internally are comfortable with taking that very difficult decision of pulling the plug they think you don't think we've reached that point him well i wanted to say that my memory of the extension was that chris starr said that he understood that this was the last time we were here in april that there would be no further extension unless he had a counterparty like like over the sink and toll brothers inc an investment very counterparty they're responsible developer and they have a good reputation in each of us brings our experience to the board i've seen a number of corporate transactions in my past life and to come to this point and need another thirty days to make a closing is not that unusual to do it two or three times is very unusual so i think you know we have comfort that this is on toll brothers and as bill said this is a necessary ask so if we don't approve this extension they can't close when you do deals like this you know you saw dominoes and you push them and if they all don't fall down then you don't do the deal but that hasn't happened to you you all you've worked with starbucks you worked with the remediation on the e in all of those things have been resolved they need they need more time to september thirtieth to do this i think of again we instead of having chris star in a financing group that's been assembled we have an investment grade developer with a good reputation it's a necessary ask you don't have any intermountain board obstacles and we expect the closing to take place before september thirtieth great th recess great so we just took a five minute recess and signed a document to extend the closing of the parking lot to september thirtieth two thousand and sixteen and we're back in open open session we have one final contract for a three year period beginning july fourth two thousand and fourteen and being on june thirtieth two thousand and seventeen with the belmont police here your officers association this union represents the sergeants lieutenants and captains in our police department the package before you represents an overall eight point nine two percent increase this is consistent with what has been settled with the other public safety unions and is composed of a two percent cola for each year small increase to the first responder stipends it allows for a change in the contribution rate for health insurance premium payments new hires will now be paying twenty five percent towards their health insurance currently people pay twenty percent to the biggest component is a policy for reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing which is now a formal part of the contract once it is voted by this board and the nominal increases to detail rate and special assignments into the negotiation of the new contract this fall i would like to start again with all of the unions that we can hopefully have to go earlier cycle are it ready so this one reaches back yes it's just over two years expired so hopefully going forward we can get how long will this one because more than the upcoming lot this particular contract is a three year contract to be going till june thirtieth twenty seventeen the next cycle coming up it remains to be determined how many years the contract will be typical we've always done three year