and welcome to the belmont journal your source for hyper local news and community updates i'm mike crowley your host this week starting october st the department of public works tells us that the trash carts that are overfilled will no longer be picked up so if you can't close the lid on your trash cart you will have to use an official overflow bag for any excess trash now you can purchase these at star market hillside true value and the office at nineteen more st the cost is fifteen dollars for a sleeve which contains five hundred and thirty two gallon bags so waste management tells us that they'll sticker any trash cart or trash bin that's that's overloaded and they will not pick it up two weeks ago there was considerable chaos in lawrence and over and north andover with no less than eighty fires burning from gas pipeline problems belmont fire chief dave result was there as the state coordinator for the massachusetts fire mobilization committee we met with him last saturday at cushing square during the fall festival and he shared some of his thoughts about the experience was something that you don't see normally powers off people wanted to evacuate from their houses then they became a whole host of health issues electricity being off for multiple days meant that food in refrigerators and things had gone bad what do you deal with that in the other issues with potential rodents of pass that come along with that so it's meant as extra trash pick ups and things like that or a laurenson with the end over end  but it was amazing how boring support and that started there is need afternoon continued friday continued saturday continued sunday and ended the call the fire support was not needed after monday morning vote and what the results were and what that means for belmont welcome to the show emma thank you thanks for having me what were the results and what does this mean so what we're voting on was whether or not to place restrictions on adult use marijuana establish were right licenses in history by the state so the results were yes we voted in favor of placing those restrictions which means we will only be able to license to retail facilities and not license cultivat production and testing labs about the turnout for the election and how controversial or not you think you think this rope was well for turnout you know we had eighteen twenty two percent total turnout which is about on par with what lections what i as i've been following this since the two thousand and sixteen vote and other towns in massachusetts that did vote yes and i tried to to ban facilities with the turnout was much much lower we were talking you know there are some towns that fanned with a nine percent turnout thirteen percent turnout very very low turnout so i was very focused on making sure that that that wasn't the case here trying to get out word about the vote as much as i could ok in terms of what that are that are overturning the two thousand and sixteen vote so to speak with with bans are doing so with such a low turnout for a special election ninety nine percent of voters are saying well never mind we don't want this so for us i think that the eighteen percent  a retail establishment here in town see applications it's going to be a wild ok number one we have a moratorium in place until december st year number two you know it's a really the process to get license so whatever facility would want to open up here they have to meet with the town about the host community agreement they have to hold public meetings these things take a very long time ok you know aside from all of the background checks and the finance checks and everything that the state does i would i would guess maybe within six months we're lucky ok well thanks so much emma thank you so much food pantry has been operating in borrowed space for years moving from one location to another now the board of selectmen and town administrator patrice garvan have found a new home for the food pantry at downhaul patty helots the food pantry founder and director and patrice gerber and talk with us about the new location came to the board of selectmen that couple months after i had started the board had charged me with finding a new location for the food pantry my past history with working in food pantries i know what an important social program is for any town so i made it a critical mission and wanted to try and find a home for the food pantry this from that we're sitting in right now this is the training room it's in town hall it's in the basement of the st ground floor and i noticed that th type of social program this space could take that would be the same size as the other space we've got we've got actually here a separate deck dedicated room for storage here in this room what we'll do this time is that we're not going to just bring what we have and put it in here because it won't make you lies that's utilized the space fortunately unbeknown to me one of my longtime volunteers is an architect and she's going to come in calling for donations to help us to build this room too you know because now we need some extra funds to get the space ready we're scheduled to have the food pantry move in february st of two thousand and nineteen and i know i'm looking forward to it being here i'm looking forward to trying to get employees involved in the food pantry i think people need to understand that there is a lot of need in the community and the food pantry addresses that need so i'm very excited so happy to be here so glad to have your back joining us i have to open up with a little bit of bad news ok there was a fire in belmont center which affected several businesses on the corner of leonard street now xander avenue on monday thing well luckily it could have been more serious but luckily they're located right across from the fire department and luckily most of these businesses were closed and doctors darien dental group he noticed smoke coming out of the electrical outlets in his office and called nine hundred and eleven right away or someone in his office to call nine hundred and eleven right away and they came in it took about forty five minutes to put it out and what they discovered was there was a fire in the wall inventing nails and spa salon which is eighty six leonard street and chief fire chief doofus l said it's most likely from an overloaded power strip from broken walls and water and they're going to be displaced for at least two months or more so sam let's let's move on and talk about the debt exclusion yes another another serious topic floyd floyd carman our town treasurer he released his financing plan if the debt exclusion passes and he shared it with the system how and i did do a big front page ok story on it just so that belmont residents could understand how this de exclusion is going to pay affect their pocketbooks ok and basically what he set for a the average single family home in belmont is assessed for about a one million three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars so if the debt exclusion passes the st year two million one thousand help borrow eighty five million dollars and that's going to raise the person what that average assessment will raise their real estate tax about six hundred and seventy four dollars for that year ok then the following year he said he's going to borrow another eighty five million dollars and that will bring the real estate taxes up for that average assessment to about four one thousand eight hundred dollars then in two thousand and twenty four he said he's going to borrow forty five million plus or minus because the debt exclusions for two hundred and ninety five thousand dollars they're expecting an eighty million dollars reimbursement from the masses choose to school building authority but that is for eligible costs so this is reimbursement rate doesn't know be a need for an operating override but we don't know that for sure well that's where it believes ok well thank you so much joanna and we'll talk to you next time thank you michel ok think of this week in the belmont t and welcome back franklin tucker editor of the belmont tony and nice to be here how are you doing today just fine thank you ok so we're talking about the yet we're talking about yes and no ok and this is referring to the campaigns for the approval or not approval of the debt exclusion for the new which will be two hundred and thirteen million dollars in debt and that will happen on it will happen on the ballot in november th again i just have to disclose that i am a part of or involved in the yes campaign although we keep things fair and balanced here yes i hope so of course so  the school of which the town approved a a four million dollars override for schools and a little bit of roadway you have the two chairman of that all right also being part of the yes it's a very well organized it's not just going to be mailings and things like that they're going to be knocking on doors are going to be at every event you can think of and that's how they improve and that's how the override which a lot of people did not want got approved and they're going to be going not only to parents of residents who have children in the school which is about thirty percent of the population but hitting everybody and basically saying look you're going to pay two hundred and thirteen million dollars over five years over thirty years or you're going to pay pay two hundred and fifty eight million dollars over ten years because that's what you'll have to do to make the schools  ll i mean everybody can say that they're saying it's either or you either pay up now or you pay much more over a ten year period so the very smart way of approach ok so how about how about the new well there's a funny little no campaign  very specific it's not based on finances it's based on what they call traffic traffic safety these are people who have been coming to the high school building building committee  basically saying look the way the school is now is laid out golden streets are going to take the massive brunt of morning and afternoon traffic and the concern the concern is is that you know you're going to group it was more saying we're going to vote no even though we support the schools we were going to support we're going to go against this and basically what's happened is that over the last couple of days and colson former select former representative she also lives on schools for god she is a compromise made a compromise and and what we learned today is that amy tan about has has quit as treasurer that's interesting all right well thanks so much franklin and we'll talk with you again yes i was going to the soccer fields at town field in one brookfield to talk to people about composting we were there our engines are going in the compost bin rather than into the landfill julie's right so tirelessly for composting in our community and it's really wonderful that she's out here on the weekends sort of solving the problem of not having trash cans out here but also making  i'm james in the see your community calendar for next week but one book springs a week of author visits on tuesday meet heather abel author of the optimistic decade and jessica keener of strangers in budapest from seven to nine and from seven to ten for will be discussing her memoir footprints in the dust on wednesday poets generals never caught and mary coveleski burns will be visiting and on thursday meet with talley perkins in a discussion of her young adult novel bring the descent near learn more about these author talks on belmont books dot com one book one belmont for two thousand eight hundred is mary shelley's frankenstein the monthlong celebration kicks off next week on thursday with a free screening of young frankenstein at studio cinema this cult classic will be playing at six thirty pm with a special guest frankenstein's monster you can read up on all of one book one belmont's events on the library's website get scientific at mad science is to our open house for their new mad lab what about science in richmond classes watch scientists perform experiments and check out interactive exhibits the mad lab is suitable for kids ages five through twelve learn more at mad science dot org teams going to ten tonight overnight trip to the white mountains with habitat education center and wildlife sanctuary from saturday to monday flippin huts practice group leadership skills and explore alpine ecology among the picturesque mountains register by mail or phone learn more on mass autobahns website hike stone hurst to habitat on saturday from eight am to one thousand two hundred and thirty with roger rubble director of habitat the western greenway includes over one thousand two hundred acres of connected green space running through lexington waltham and belmont enjoy six and a half mile hike from the robert treat pain estate in waltham to habitat and enjoy the fall sites bring water and a snack or lunch register on mass autobahns website belmont service will be held at the unitarian church on monday october th volunteer in this town wide annual event during various service projects throughout the month the event starts with breakfast at eight hundred and thirty dollars and ends with pizza and ice cream at noon visit belmont serves dot org to sign up and that's it for this week if you like your event featured  at the beach street center celebrating his th th birthday as well as his retirement our own chef hansel talked with him before his last concert  it's been a good wife career the greatest experience and our show with a programming update for your belmont media center channel's be sure to watch well that's all for now i hope to see you