organization that does a lot of community service and fund raising for a variety of charitable causes rotary international  are the foremost organization that helps in the eradication of polio worldwide locally we raise money and offer scholarships for belmont high school students and other forces me and others social needs were about community and were about inclusiveness so we we want to have let everyone know in the become incorporated was it first needed a church and so the farmers got together and eight hundred fifty six and created the church and then the legislature finally turned it dave the charter to the town in eight hundred fifty nine so that's why we're called the first church in belmont and so we've been here over one hundred fifty years we've we've had a table every year for twelve years and each summer we usually get a half dozen or so new families that sign i guess register and one that signed last year as a matter of fact joined a church and became so involved that she helped organize a lay led services for this past summer so it's a very important event for us when we make connect make good connections i'm with the first church of christ scientist in belmont  christian science a nomination or one of the branch churches of the mother church in boston we have a church service ten forty five in the morning sundays and sunday school of the same time for kids up to twenty and then one's evening testimony meetings where people kind of share how past we've been here i think this is the seventh or eighth year we've been here and we would try to come every year because it's really a way to reach out to the rest of the community in the belmont area and find people that would never probably know to think about looking  can you tell us about the say joseph collaborative sure where the two catholic churches in belmont and very excited to be kind of a new point in our history where we're forming a collaborative between year and a half myself so this is just my second time being here so this helps your membership sure it does it's always good to have the opportunity to be seen and to see other folks as they come into the town and let us let them know that  would like to fill and so the kids love it they all help design it themselves so they have a lot of pride in it and when it's finished on october fourteenth we're going to have a big party with belmont service day so we can to meet belmont to me people that are going to come help us builds i mean we're going to be building it with the community tell me about the i don't you're sure all this here is the symbol for the belmont farmer's market we just collaborate with other farmers and we set up a market so local people can come and get fresh fruit vegetables honey everything everything under the sun this is a great place for new people in belmont to come and check out local organizations and councils and stuff like that to get to know the town area organization that has a great newsletter and said every two months you can go to belmont citizens form dot org to sign up for it and to volunteer for some of our efforts as our organization has a mission to work on land conservation traffic problems storm water problems we had a great storm water forum last september and we're very happy about the storm water regulations that were passed by town meeting this spring and we've got some great projects coming up that people can sign up for to help remove some nine pervious surfaces from town so that we can soak up that rain and reduce the flooding and we've also got a lot going on with our bike path efforts we are hoping that we can help the town find the right path from l y t station to belmont off the wall famine way beyond one twenty eight and four ninety five right from belmont that's our vision for the for the bike so having a table here  yeah it's great to meet the new families coming into town and to make connections with other organizations we've just had a good chat for instance with the belmont historical society who who we hope will join us on the street walker along little river so it's great for making connections with other people and it's terrific for meeting and welcoming new families into town my name is neil winston and i'm president of the belmont land trust we're a private nonprofit organization formed about thirteen years ago to hold restrictions on all of the land is privately owned but the land owners give us the building restriction as a matter of law and these restrictions are signed off by the selectmen by the state environmental department and recorded to the registry of deeds well a lot of people know a little bit of bottom land trust but they don't know about our particular way interest and meet belmont gives us a chance to just say hello to some of the newer people in town and every once in a while somebody is truly interested in getting involved in mantras take tiffany's where sustainable downline know we are interested in helping the town become more energy efficient and working with the town and committees and other town offices really closely that we can encourage transportation here like car free transportation and we have information that we can share with people in the town we also sponsor t once a month we usually have a speaker com that the library or somewhere people can come and learn about different initiatives we have a couple coming up in the fall that are posted over there yeah that's what we do can you tell me about the belmont police department and maybe some new innovative things that they're doing so recently we've begun to get more involved in the social media aspect of policing we've launched twitter account where we give people residence updates on road closings crime trends of who are experiencing a lot of car breaks will we'll tweet out if we want people walk to doors in just in the last two weeks we've been veiled the facebook page  we're anything that we put out over twitter goes to our facebook page and on the page you get a little bit more information on the police department the ongoings in town that have to do with the police department whether it's road closing construction work or other citizen advisory suggestions pertaining to crime and the time this table that we have set up with i think it's a great idea it gets us involved people might not normally contact contact us with some questions sometimes people feel as though their questions might not be where they are a phone call to the station and so this gives them an opportunity to to take some time and talk to us and hopefully we can we can provide answers t questions that they have and anything else that they might have pertaining to knowledge in the town later days coming up we want we want people to drive safe we want people to have designated drivers but take a cab especially if you're going into boston it's a reasonable fear to to take a cab home is celebrating in boston but also just to be safe and enjoy enjoy the holiday anything else you want to add as a policeman or belmont just  stay safe lock your car doors at night you know as everybody knows we do have like other communities around us we do have a lot of people that break into cars at night lock your doors and like you bicycles as well this time of year we get a lot of  working on transportation and how to fund to transportation maintain our own bta our bus signs on our roads and so forth so there's a lot of work to put that money in place without now having a table here how does that help you will always try to make you take every opportunity to be reach out to the community whether it's through something like this which is a great adventure goes to a great job with us every year we really appreciate it or on the web once get on the cable we do we want to be out there so people can reach is and know what we're doing welcome to the planning board table where the belmont planning board we are very involved in zoning in town and with me other members of the planning board and our staff my name is sammy baghdad and we are here displaying a little bit about what we do these are some of the initiatives and zoning bylaws that we have worked on and our latest project has been the permit fifteen residential units and about thirty eight thousand square feet of commercial well there's a lot of initiatives coming up this year that is going on a moratorium on tear downs of single family housing conversions to two family houses and we basically figure out what the best thing is in terms of how new buildings will fit in the community and how existing buildings that want to be raised tore down or redeveloped can fit in to the community nicely with its redevelopment either through renovation or new construction and we just work with developers we work with we work a different down departments actually we actually work with the light department this past year to craft the solo byelaw so it's a very interesting board i think courage everyone to come to a meeting very educational mark polow i'm chairman of the board of selectmen the board is the executive branch of government in this community we have a three member board which is very unique because there's only one of the community i believe in and the state that is a town that has a three member board most most towns have five members we have a three member board  executive richard government in town we're sort of like like the mayor of a city or a city council something of that nature we take care of the budget process during the during the annual budget meeting we have we make appointments  opportunity for us to meet citizens new direction unity and try to understand how we're governed to explain that to him we do have a table it is an elected position we have it's a three year term i was just recently re elected it's a time tell us why you're here i'm here because it's a great night in belmont and as many people might know in the sheriff of middlesex county i represent belmont but i'm also a candidate for the fifth congressional district a seat left open by ed markey so i'm here as a candidate as well to introduce myself to some of the great people in belmont here well i'm a kid from waltham right next door i'm a middle class kid and i know the issues that are really important people from belmont to waltham across the fifth congressional district are going to be women's rights making sure that they have  full control of their own reproductive rights and that other people are making those decisions for them that they achieve equal pay seventy cents on the dollar is what they're earning per for one hundred cents on the dollar that a man earns that we make sure that we get off of the fossil fuels with regard to our or energy policies and move on to renewable energies in that we reduce we do everything we can to reduce gun violence by making sure that we're put putting on full background checks with no loopholes banning assault weapons and banning high capacity magazines among many of the other issues that i care about very much sure the butler school will p t a s support the education of all the kids in the public schools that were elementary on white street and here right here in belmont i've met some of the new parents so far tonight which this really g connex with the new parents they have a lot of questions and a lot of concerns but i think it's been great to be here yes said hennery p t o is at parent organization that works along with the  school to make sure that there are activities for the students we also support the curriculum that occurs at the school and they also allow opportunities for the children to have enrichment programs after school and during class so we're excited we we do social sure we are red herring morris dancers of belmont and banbury cross morrison stuart which is the oldest what red herring morris dances more a stance is a style of english traditional dance that was considered ancient when shakespeare was wearing diapers in fact shakespeare wrote about it in some of his plays but people read them anyway  we are a style called border morris dance comes in many different styles our style is border which stems from the border between england and wales and is generally a more aggressive style of dance that there are many other styles but this is what we focus on in this is where you should