will will do the testing of the devices here if it's not working then please come up here if any device isn't working please come forward also all right are we all sat any problem now one more minute all right i think or sat any others i'm going a little out of order because i want to spend a few minutes on procedures and reviewing what happened the other night so i'm going to have a special presentation so we will do that now for that i would introduce john failon superintendent of schools mr fa i bring that to your attention not necessarily for the accomplishments of our students right now or the believe that these rankings are always exactly correct but i bring it to your attention because the long sustained excellence in the belmont public schools has been built on the shoulders of people like george carey what i would like to do tonight is recognize george kerry and his family is here tonight in read the retirement word spoken on his behalf and five the reason why we do this is principle kerry was a long standing educator there was a scholarship in his name here at belmont high and there was a wonderful and beautiful plaque dedicated to his service at the burbank schools well was appointed principal of the burbank school and continued in this capacity until his retirement during his long tenure mr kerry's st concern was always for the welfare of the students under his supervision a dedicated teacher and it ministry or he was warm and friendly well liked in highly esteemed by pupils parents and colleagues alike he was diligent and conscientious  carrying out his duties it was always ready and willing and able to cooperate in performing any task assigned were given to him he will be long remembered by all who had the good fortune to know when to work with him during his many years in belmont as a member of the school system and as a resident of this town the school committee acting on itself the school personnel in the students in the citizens of belmont here by express the appreciation of  mr kerry friends and colleagues of his long time and faithful service and extends its best wishes to all of the many and continued happy years in history time in principle kerry is not with us any longer but we have his family here tonight and i want to let his family know that the professionalism of the dedication of educators and professionals like your father carried this school system and set a culture a long time ago that we hope to carry through our year in year out  the excellence that we have in the belmont schools is built on the shoulders like your father so thank you very much to hear the family of thank you very much for your sworn in now by the town clerk seeing none one business things i was told that some a car in the lot mass oh there you go helen usually your honesty is rewarded with a normal us round of applause at the end see oh there we go no one needs to be afraid we can do this ok do you solemnly raise your right and please you solemnly affirm that you will uphold the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the commonwealth of massachusetts and by was of the town of belmont and that you partially review where we're going to what we're going to do tonight article one will begin with the article one under article one the report on the d p w police building committee by  we will then turn to the special town meeting and articles articles twenty three and four which are largely housekeeping articles will then adjourn the special town meeting explain when we come to the motion that we are going to put before this body a slight change in the order of articles so that the reconsideration of article tan would take place on monday instead of tonight sherman who filed the motion is agreeable to it but it's a town meeting decision so shortly when we put the order of articles up i will allow for any discussion or debate on changing that and that will be your vote s i guess i'm free for the rest of the year let me try to touch on a few things and make make some help clarify some issues and see if we can go forward  as constructively as possible st thing a number of people have mentioned to me and actually it was mentioned by one of the town meeting members want to put up the roll call at the end of the vote and see who has voted clearly there's been some comments about somebody who has been in the minority that's simply not appropriate and town meeting you know this nation was built on to sent our democracy is a result of dissent dissent is a good thing and if we start in some way criticizing dissent because it isn't the flavor of the day then we are not performing the duties of town meeting and the democracy that we're all proud of so that's one do two things here one is lay out the philosophy and the and the procedures on reconsideration and then i'm going to review what happened monday night terms of the philosophy and understanding of reconsider ation it's i mean there are that there's a notion a simple you want to reconsideration of a vote that's just taken place but there's a lot of discussion in all the manuals and certainly in town meeting time which is our bible about the purpose of reconsideration and controlling it so it's not abused and so like so much of everything in town meeting or not democracy it's a balance you want to allow for reconsideration if there are circumstances that warrant it but it's not fair to town meeting if it if it's totally open ended and if somebody on the minority on the losing side of an issue has free rein to reconsider and then take down meeting time is the time of town meeting and to debate it all over again so it's an appropriate  balance to have reconsideration but all of the manuals put in protect so it's not abused by the minority so that's the context now there's a lot of in terms of that where we can find you can find out about this on the other town rose you've got the town town meter and town meeting handbook you have our general bylaws you have town  you have the two pager that i send out i mean with all the other packards on the town meeting procedures so there are a lot of resources obviously not just on reconsideration but on the rules of town meeting so i would encourage you to look at those the procedure for reconsideration which was appropriately followed by mr mercier on monday night is either to come to the microphone and requests reconsideration or file it the next morning the next business day by noon with the town clerk  the either asking for reconsideration or filing doesn't make it automatic it has to comply with the bylaws but that's the procedure and and then the reconsideration has to take place within the given town must who is eligible for requesting a reconsideration for all the years of belmont town meeting it was a moot point because they may have had  one or two or three roll calls but we didn't have the electronic roll call so we somebody might move for reconsideration and everybody in here might know where he or she voted but we don't really know because we don't it's not public so therefore and tell me in time emphasizes this you can't enforce a rule that says there reconsideration can only come from somebody who is in the majority because we do don't know how that person voted however what town meeting time makes clear is that if you have a roll call then obviously you know how that person voted and town meeting time says in that instance you can enforce if you will the rule that only somebody in the majority can move for reconsideration the reason for that it  instance it may seem counterintuitive well why would somebody want to do that is that if anybody in the minority can do it then you end up that what this situation i described in which  the entire town meeting or much of the town meeting is held hostage if you will to somebody who didn't like the result and so therefore the rule is somebody in the majority vote is the one who who files so that's the basic context for it and why we do it so is sturrock lee we didn't enforce it because we couldn't but now with the roll call and this st came up monday night let me say st i take responsibility for the confusion but i think it may be helpful to town meeting for me to briefly describe sort of what happened and my thought process so you understand i came from there up here i thought we were all done recused myself of course of course i thought we were all done and i was simply coming up to do the last motion to adjourn town meeting until tonight at seven mr mercier stood up and made his motion or began to what i should have done because i had recused myself at that moment his and the gavel back to mr polo so i think that would have been the right thing to do at the time i was surprised and so i didn't do that and then mr mercier made the motion my head went to the point of our historic point which is that anybody who makes the motion to reconsider is eligible rather than to change the recently take place with the roll call so i thought it was an appropriate motion and frankly given the debate and the closeness of the vote and i always try to be fair it seemed like a reasonable thing so i was in my thought process as well and then it ended and julie crockett raised with a point of order but at that point i thought we should just dismissed the meeting but she came up afterward which was helpful and she reminded me of the particulars of what happened last fall when she filed a motion for reconsideration but she was on the minority side and so george hall and i reviewed the town meeting time and we ruled that that was out of order because she was in the minority so she reminded me of that i then checked with the town council george hall who confirmed all that so i realize i had made a mistake so then how to rectify the mistake i thought i was i was leery about just making the exception to the rule in this case so we looked at could we put off the time under which somebody could file for a majority person could file for reconsideration which is new in the next day no it's a by law so we couldn't have the discretion to miss it in there and make that decision so we thought the best thing under all circumstances we could do was to get out an immediate e mail we did that night alan and i very grateful to alan and meg for going back to the office and sending that offer on eleven o'clock at night to let town meeting members know of the decision that we couldn't accept mr mercier's motion because it didn't comply with the rules of town meeting we did that deliberately as they say at the time certain begin for myself in the hope that somebody on the yes side would file for reconsideration and that was a deliberate reason we wanted to get that out soon soon so that we would have time in the morning rather than putting it out i would say eleven am and there would be no time and i'm grateful sugarman file for reconsideration and so i think it ended up in a good place i want to explain the circumstances to town meeting and take responsibility for that but also for you to understand that i was trying to do in all of that do the right thing the fair thing for a town meeting which is always government so i hope that's helpful and i would just ask for your your indulgence and your support thank you and this is the order that we expected to go in that that i described there was a meeting group of citizens came met with the selectmen six o'clock hour ago in all of this there was confusion there is confusion about reconsideration and they requested that the reconsideration motion which we planned to do tonight may early june so that would be the structure but this is a decision of town meeting so the chair of the board of selectmen will read the order of the articles but i'm going to allow for any discussion because i want to make sure the town meeting the majority of town meeting approves of putting this or is at least agreeable to putting this off to monday rather than tonight that's not my unilateral decisions so mr computer do you want to read the motion town meeting here the motions in the following order eighteen thousand nine hundred and eleven motion to reconsider ten followed by twelve through twenty two so that motion would in a fact move the only thing different would reconsideration of ten from tonight to monday night so is there any and i  'm not sure if i have the exact same questions pop i'm less concerned about moving the motion to reconsider but puzzled before the logic as to why if there is a reconsideration we have to wait until june to take up an issue that is fresh in everybody's mind and it seems to me that those are linked so i would be interested in what the logic is for that let me describe that in terms of the discussion that took place at the board of selectmen meeting and that was that given what we're doing on monday which is the d p w police and c p s and reconsideration if we then do that article as well one of two things happened we probably stay till midnight or we have a th night i don't like anybody wants to do probably either of those so that was the discussion ideally mr weis we would do him back to back but we're in a situation now we can't move the c p a out that's been all set so far so we are in a scheduling bind and that's the rationale but they do go together in other words i'm glad you raised it the yes because we did have one person up saying yes yes they can thank you yes just jesse bennett precinct one i just wanted to clarify some of the conversation that we had at the board is like a meeting which was very involved and we in answer to mr claflin question of why would we move it to monday one situation i brought up was if there was a motion to reconsider that came between two articles in an even an evening of town meeting would we then immediately act on it or would we push it to the next you know after we adjourned when we came back so if it came in the middle of monday night we would pushed it off to wednesday this happened right at the end of our session on monday night and it seemed to make sense to me that we would need a little bit more time to digest it and prepare for it so it's essentially saying moderators desire to move it to monday yes my understanding i'm sorry elizabeth the on precinct to tell me to my understanding is that any discussion on this is going to be limited to the motion to reconsider not the underlying thoughts of the article correct it seems to me we can do this very quickly but let's do it now while it's fresh in our heads and get it done thank you m remember a person sex yeah i spoke to a number of tommy members who were very confused about what was what we were actually going to be voting on and i think that the right thing to do is to wait to digest the information just like we're waiting to digest the information on the the police station construction takes time to to digest and i also would like to hear this selectman speak to what what your opinion is of whether to change the order of the articles sentiment in the room was that there was a fair bit of confusion and i think we were able to work through with the moderator what appeared to be an approach that would provide an opportunity to clarify the issues and for folks to reflect on it prior to voting at the end of the day though i think what motivated myself and i don't speak for the rest of the selectmen per se is that this is ultimately a legislative decision so we're putting forth a question to this group town meeting gets to determine if you would like to make a change or not this is less of an executive decision so we ultimately put forth something that can be voted on by this group and if any of my colleagues would like to make any other comments right when you said to me before would i be i misunderstood what it was that was being shifted i'm not saying i'm against it but i did want to speak that i did not know that there was any discussion going on at the selectmen meeting and the comment made about how giving people time to digest i put in the motion i digested what i had i wrote up something to speak to tonight so i understand there was confusion but stuff came up monday and i had time to digest and you know this is what's going on here so i'm a little i'm would have liked to have what that was about rather than just oh can we move it to monday i agree with that and that's why i want to be clear i'm not presenting this as my view of what should be done i'm presenting this as a responsibility the moderator to let town meeting decide and i think you know thank you yes i helen gold increasing  law whether there are so new that wasn't know or you know that wasn't developed on the record that somebody's house you know all of a sudden needs to present i think we can debate whether that's the case and i really just monday to understand what a reconsideration of a vote is does that at all impact your next election or the next election scuse me of the moderator does that it would have that change of vote or timing or anything like that to give some people who may request extra time to understand what this is i don't know it doesn't sorry i'll answer your question for you but it doesn't impact the day of the vote or anything to just if people are scared and feel like they want to understand the new body of law and better to newtown meaning members i just had some people ask me who are new members and i wanted to see if we could give them time but if you don't want to that's ok mr mugabe precinct want probably matching procedures really boring and nobody pays attention to it except members of the bylaws committee you need to have a copy of the meeting time which is referee to in their general bar in laws and alan has one up there and when you read about reconsideration they point out that reconsideration is not a sour grapes the company did by reasons that have been evaluated to be compelling no that would be this that will be the determination of town meeting when we discuss  she will read the motion and then she will present her reasons and then we will have a discussion and the reasons submitted with the filing before they were not and they don't need to be then i was going to say then that motion may be out of water no it's not out of order ok this book gives moderator a lot of even if you are my friend me last year and we talked about it on monday i found something in our meeting handbook two hours ago that it's also inconsistent page twelve needs to be updated i think that  i was in the room when the when the selectmen and the moderator discussed it was a consensus i thought that everybody thought this was a deal to move it forward i'd like to hear from the selectmen whether you vote favorable or unfavorable action on this motion one i'm a new town meeting member and i think you've done a great job of explaining the motion to reconsider and i think that's clear i don't want to speak for all the new members but i think that sounds clear but the thing i wanted to point out was what i've heard from other people is that the discussion around the actual motion of ten that there actually changed my mind during the discussion based on some points that people raised and then thoughts about how long the warrant committee serves and other just aspects of the moderators position it sounds like there's a lot of conflicting information so the idea of waiting till june to actually vote on the motion if the reconsideration happens makes sense to me to allow all the real facts to be kind of gathered so we can all make a maybe a more informed decision and i don't think we'll all forget but maybe you might have more time to it st the motion ten seemed pretty like a rubber stamp idea and then with when some people brought some concerns it seemed like if there was it was more complicated so i think that it's a good idea especially because of the scheduling conflict that you bring up to do the motion to reconsider and then do it take it up at the later meeting  this is calling the question to terminate debate on the order of the article on this motion on the order of the articles so it takes a two thirds vote to terminate one minute for him to get it up it takes a two thirds vote as you know to terminate debate and will momentarily put that up that this is not on the motion so not on the order of the articles itself simply on you shouldn't take this job if you don't like surprises while they're doing this let me make one other comment i've mentioned this in the past but if anybody has any questions not of a minimum reconsideration or anything at any time please feel free to shoot me an email i know me i'm always get right back and i it's helpful to know what's on people's minds and if i can help answer any questions so don't feel that you shouldn't do that in some fashion so and the email is mike  mail dot com so please anytime feel free to do it i would say all right this is the motion to terminate debate requires two thirds checked to see if the name is working so ok all right so the results of the motion  two hundred and forty i mean in the system two hundred and forty nine people have cast votes and it's eighty nine to eleven so there is no way mathematically that this would not achieve two thirds so  debate is terminated we now go to the and will do this electronically as well we go to the motion on the order of the articles the motion was to change the reconsideration from tonight to monday so if you support changing from tonight to monday vote yes if you want to keep the reconsideration tonight vote no it's not clear like a question of order if a point of order if the motion to change the order is voted down and the reconsideration is the vote to reconsider tonight passes are you still are you intending to take up the issue on monday or is it yes and thank you what he said we're asking is only announced previously is that if we go ahead with the reconsideration tonight and it passes we would then take up the article at the monday meeting and that's was in the email that the town clerk send out and that would be our intent yes so we're going to vote on the motion if you want to move reconsideration to monday vote yes if you want to keep it tonight vote no three i didn't think i was confused but now i'm confused because i thought the plan was that we would vote monday on the issue of reconsideration but vote in june on the main motion on article ten and i thought that's how it was if that is if town meeting wanted to do that yes so if you want to postpone reconsideration til monday we would then in june vote on the article if you want to keep reconsideration tonight you'd vote no and then we would do the article on monday yeah that's let me review it again the original intent was to do reconsideration tonight and allow time for people to digest that and if it prevails and do the reconsideration of the are doing the article on monday and that was in the email from allen that was the original plan because of the meeting tonight with the selectmen we've put an alternative before you the alternative would have reconsideration monday and put off discussion of the article if it prevailed until the june town meeting therefore and the motion before you is the motion to want to keep it the way it was in the email from allan then you vote with thank you i think i get it and start overflow and have to have a wednesday meeting i think we can do if we don't have to do both reconsideration on the article i think we can do that on monday ok thanks so we would not have a th night is that clear so are we so if you want the new arrangement vote yes if you want to do reconsideration tonight vote no nine in effect then we will after we hear from anne marie mahoney and we do the special town meeting will then articles two hundred and thirty four will then do the reconsideration but this just covers the motion or the order of the most and in the me member precinct to that article one be taken from the table i was in favor please say i was opposed now and marie mahoney town meeting member precinct one chair of the d p w belmont police department building committee good evening everyone my horoscope for today stated tonight where the fun i wish you'd told me that advanced are you with sagittarius so here we go i also will say that as i prepared this material i was somewhat concerned that it would be very complicated for people to absorb however i'm not worried about that anymore ok here we go as you know the building committee open beds on the d p w police building project on friday april th they were very favorable and we therefore are quite excited to get this project rolling the building committee met last night to review the beds our finances and to vote to accept the bits unfortunately the time clerk's office was a little busy today so you did not get material by e mail but you will get it tonight or certainly by tomorrow however my esteemed helpers mr carm give you the full information that you need i am going to try tonight to just do the highlights and then as mr widmer stated earlier we will go through the entire presentation on monday evening and dovetailed with us will be the c p a project right after us so let me give you the broad brush information the see what is our article going to request three million seven hundred and fifty six thousand dollars to be bonded and pa down from capital fund how does that break out construction costs and constituents and will contingency three million dollars relocation costs for the police station five hundred thousand dollars design money that will be rolled forward that was already allocated to us from the candle fund and will be rolled forward into the rest of this work two hundred and fifty six thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars  twenty four cents in short we are requesting additional money to fund necessary additional work to the police this article and this request is not about cost overruns mismanagement overreaching bad cost estimates or black holes as someone actually suggested to me this is about being smart prudent diligent and good stewards of your town building how many of you have renovated a kitchen in your house a bathroom added a family room or plumbing the wiring the structural supports that needed to be addressed did everything go perfectly as planned i don't think so did you alter your plans and therefore your cost estimates once you got started probably i know that i did with my kitchen project a few years ago that's our analogy to what we're asking you tonight we had a plan that we presented to you last year then we figured t open the walls and discovered that we had a lot more work to address than we had anticipated if we didn't address the work that we identified two things would happen one the work would have to be done anyway and soon regardless but it would not be coordinated with this construction project with the new additions that we are putting on to citizens would be complaining to us that we were irresponsible for figuring out what we critically needed but not actually do so two decisions that faced us one move the police out of the building this was not the original plan that i stood here and sold this time last year but we soon discovered that the construction would go faster cheaper and easier if the building were empty once we made that decision then we came to number two which is opportunity to renovate the interior of the empty building get the worked on while we could coordinate the systems and upgrades with the new construction upgrades including mechanical ac wiring plumbing fire safety removal of hazardous materials new flooring and in the end just repaint the walls so what is the result of these two choices that we made when the new police station is reopened in two thousand and twenty it will truly be a gem to be treasured and used by the police and the town for the next fifty preserved and polished georgian to return to our house analogy we wouldn't open up the wall between a new kitchen and an old bathroom and not replace the pipes and the wiring for the bathroom you probably would decide to replace the bathroom since it would be cheaper and faster to do it with the kitchen than to try to do it several years later and that basically is what we are doing with the we station could we have foreseen this probably however we were trying to keep the costs down since we were very clearly told that we could not go out for a debt exclusion so we have a cost benefit tradeoff and that is leaning right now towards the benefit of doing it right and doing it now and therefore of voiding mistakes of the past that we may have seen in other building projects we don't learn from the past what's the  remember that in a perfect world with lots of money we would be building a new police station and a new d p w early professional estimates for a new police station if we had a site and if we had a successful debt exclusion for the money we're between twenty million and thirty six million same order of magnitude for the d p w let's look at the funding of what we actually are doing let me make it let me try to make this piece of the story as simple and clear as possible and i do want to thank all the folks who asked really good questions and made really good comments to me at the various forms and caucuses that i attended because it certainly helped us to focus what we presenting to you we have a series of appropriated funds this time last year town meeting appropriated seven hundred and ninety nine seven million nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars that number had to seven point four million dollars which was bonded and which is for our estimates for construction and five hundred and ninety either bonding or the candle so that brings us to now we are requesting seven million seventy five thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars so i say wrong three million seven hundred and fifty six thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars and i've left off the twenty four and again what is that for three million for construction five hundred thousand and four relocation and round numbers the two hundred and fifty six in design and o p m money rolled forward from the candle fund to be perfectly clear if you go back to your notes from last year we talked about this candle fund roll forward last year and we thought that that was in part of what we were doing but in fact it wasn't legally there so i'm coming back to asking for the same money all over again ok what else do we have we have a c p a request that you're going to hear about monday night that is eight hundred and eight thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars that has two components the seven hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars for the exteriors construction and twenty one thousand dollars for design that was already allocated to us last fall so we could design the stuff that we're requesting the c p a money for so what is our grand total of procreation the d p w police project bonded fund scandal fund c p a twelve million five hundred and fifty five thousand sixty nine dollars note we're not including  how are we going to spend it expenses are bids that we opened on friday bid on the d p w one million three hundred thousand dollars bid on the police station seven million sixty seven thousand for a total of specific eight million nine hundred and eighty eight thousand four hundred and fifty three dollars we are anticipating and we have everything in hand that we need round numbers five hundred thousand dollars to relocate the police this is the trailer rental and set up this is the moving expenses and this is setting up the dispatch trailer in front of the when you get that handout there's more detail in that handout i'm not going to talk about it now  the construction but also for the move we need somebody to manage the move all of that totals one million one hundred and forty seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars what's our grand total and expenses ten million six hundred and thirty six thousand and three dollars ok you can see the difference between the two numbers and a good difference to our benefit we like that what are we going to do with that money  the remaining balance will be reserved for contingency what does that mean when you open those walls and you find trouble you have money to so the contingency one million nine hundred and nineteen thousand and six dollars some of you have already got your calculators out and you're doing the percentages and you're saying to yourselves what are they asking for twenty percent  they're crazy not so much when you're dealing with an old building standard can be between fifteen and eighteen percent of can between the time we went out to be a head and the time we open those beds we identified that at the police station the front stairs were crumbling we came into several meetings where my friend jamie make isaac said we haven't got the lead we have an underground tank that we have to deal with we have an antenna that's rocking and rolling we've got a lot going on in that building the contingency will allow us to deal with that simile at the d p w were a little concerned about the stability of the north wall we have some work to do on a sprinkler s to have money there to deal with that and when this project is done eighteen months we give all the rest of it back whatever is left over goes back to floyd and it's that much less that he has to ball let me just do a little let's move on to the next slide where i've got the cost comparison and that kind of tells the story for you last year we told you that we would need seven million and nine one hundred and ninety nine thousand dollars we also talked about rolling over candle fund design money we talked about the c p a request that we identified now that we have all the numbers for you last year nine million and sixty three one thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars the total in new funds that we are asking for for construction design and relocation three million five hundred dollars that is an increase of thirty eight percent which roughly equals the percentage of square feet that we are adding to th so what does it mean if we don't fund these big if you don't approve the additional money the bids for the police station are thrown out the police project will have to be reduced  drawn and rebid need more money to do that design work the identified needs of the interior of that existing station do not disappear just because we both know but now they still have to be addressed but with no additional money and so all of those issues will be addressed through a capital budget request and we can't solve all of that in the next one or two or five years finally as one member of our building committee eloquently noted do you really want to see us no more money requests from us this so we have choices here newly constructed d p w in police station estimates up to sixty million dollars if we had a site and if we had to add exclusion money we don't have either of those for twelve million and five total you get a project that addresses additions renovations relocation and contingency and the best news of all does not impact your taxes there is no tax increase associated with it so to wrap it up we hope you agree that what we are doing and what we are proposing to you is the right thing and the best thing for the police department and for belmont and until monday before you make a decision ask yourself this question will you regret the the annual town meeting so we turn to the special town meeting and the special town meeting will be called order the order of the articles mystica put on the special t or two motions here i'm going to handle them separately with an article to emory mahoney chairman of the capital budget committee we unanimously recommend favorable action mr common white common town treasurer this is a brief overview of this particular article fatah meeting as the current belmont police and d p w facility and a library project this is a financial team decision to put these monies back into the kendall fund for future design studies the two hundred and thirty two thousand is left over m s p a capital project reimbursement from the two hundred and ten wellington elementary school project discussion six hundred and sixty two dollars and ninety six cents of excess premium from the sale of general obligation bonds be transferred to the kendall fund as set forth and two and a warrant for this meeting  twenty seven thousand dollars was completed for the one hundred and eight million one hundred thousand dollars bond financing the belmont high school project the police and d p w project and a water main project which took place on me member of precinct two moved at the appropriate nineteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars seventy cents received from the commonwealth transportation infrastructure fund for the purpose of funding engineering and design services for of the department of public utilities the number of rides from the previous calendar year that originated within each city and town so the funds distributed by the d p you apportion at each city in town based on the number of rides that originated from the town of the tannebaum it was allotted nine one hundred thousand five hundred and eighty dollars seventy cents which need to be appropriated at town meeting in order for us to spend this is the st year that the time we see these funds we were instructed in late fall to complete a report identifying how the town was going to spend the money at that time we were looking at design and engineering for a signal at the lexington and six intersection and we felt that this one thousand dollars would be a bowen precinct can you speak into the mike yes miss garvin can you explain a little bit more about the commonwealth transportation infrastructure fund and what the intention of that fund is and then if it's appropriate now is for if i can get the wording it is expressed a restricted use for a particular purpose that allows expenditure by the department off so without appropriation so it's pretty much for transportation and other network services think the best way to do this is just to reject me from the literature  the fun part we have this money coming towards us the funds must be used quote to address the impact of transportation network services so that you're ober left and the like impact of transportation network services municipal roads bridges and other transportation infrastructure or any other public purpose substantially related to the operation of transportation network services in the city or town including but not limited to the complete streets program and other programs that  the elections and sycamore design needs were front and center on our radar and we decided that that was an appropriate use if i can just go back really quickly and say  services and roads bridges other transportation infrastructure i mean we felt like that an intersection improvement at lexington sycamore was you know was right in line with the purpose of the funds and so that's why we chose to go the way we did just puppet of information about half of the money that's identified in the article was used to do the engineering analysis that was required to determine whether or not the intersection met the the other half of the money approximately is money that's been used to fund the survey that is necessary to begin preparing the plans that ultimately are required to design a signalized intersection where are we in that process the signals are you know probably twenty five percent of very close to twenty five percent design which means the survey has been completed the layout of the intersection has been plotted we are at a point now where we're trying to locate the mast oms and the signals themselves within that intersection of you are aware that that intersection is very tight there's not a lot of room to play in terms of sighting of the elements that are required for a signalized intersection once we feel like we have a good concept and where we want to locate things the next step would be a public hearing process so that we to and a member of the council on aging we address this also and we are hoping that in the future you will take some of the money and help the seniors with their rides because they have a ride opportunity we had to respond to the to the report as patrice indicated this program appears to be an annual one i think that any and all options will be evaluated to the guidelines well you know as i read them they they seem to be specific but then again you could read them and say that there's some wiggle room in there i guess time will tell how the state interprets exactly what their intention is for cities and towns and using the funding i think if it's appropriate to do something along some kind of a ride  and write a right program for seniors that i think it would be considered of about speaking a little bit out of turn when i say that but i can tell you at this moment there is there is nothing planned in terms of what future funds would be pu and left have pretty much reduced significantly the availability of taxi services in town which was i use that counts on aging head was able to use local taxis to provide service since friday rides for left essentially driving those taxi service is out of business we don't have that option for the seniors any added to that spring well it has not been able which provides underwriting for some ride services was unable to find a vendor to provide those services over the past two years so there's been a real lack of available funding so we would hope and we did ask for about this back in february of these funds for this year but that we will definitely time computer chair the board selectman tell me member precinct to move to the town appropriate five thousand and fifty eight dollars from available funds to pay the following bill incurred in fiscal year two thousand and eighteen which remains unpaid the bill is from the independent mechanical contractors incorporated in the amount of five thousand and fifty eight dollars and the selections vote the board select minya mysie recommends favorable action committee la the bill submitted by independent mechanic always received after the mandated deadline and the five one thousand dollars is the balance and the discussion all those in favor please say i was opposed  time computer border selectman tell me member precinct to move to the special town meeting be adjourned and continued to seven pm monday may th two thousand and nineteen at the belmont high school auditorium although those in favor please say i right for just a moment so if i read your name you only signed in once outside and in order to get credit for both the special and the annual if you were here which you clearly are you need to go back out and sign so listen for your name there's only a  number of them pry a leaked lauren meyer kimberly selous michael crowley lisa parr goli and jennifer thomas you should go out to the desk and make sure you are signed in twice thank you