and welcome to meet belmont my name is jeff hansell i'm the executive director of the belmont media center and i'm proud to be standing here with fred a he would do she is one of our newest members  explore meet belmont and i think i see somebody here maybe we can get him to come over hello sir can we can we talk to you jeff hansel you are we'll brownsburg we'll do you know frederick to be defended so she's a journalist from france she's we're going at the moment media center now helping us with our news program what are you doing here senator what brownsburg or i love this event i always try to come  great opportunity to stay connected to everything that's going on about one and what's going on to state house right now well this is a quiet time where we're kind of getting ready for the fall working hard on some of the legislative bills that we hope to work on really get moving in the fall  well great anything any message you want to send out to your constituents here to serve always here to serve appreciate the opportunity to serve and the series a great event if you're this a record in this life well definitely come on down if you haven't if you haven't been to meet belmont it's a great opportunity to find out everything that's going on in town so let's go inside and meet belmont ok we're standing at the b b s english language learner table and we are here with lindy de lorean lindy what are you doing here i teach english as a second language at the iranian i was in school so e s l in done month schools there's a pull out method and we pull the children out of the regular classrooms and we kind of agree upon a time with the teacher to make sure they're not missing vital things that they mean and  it ranges from forty five minutes to sixty minutes depending on if they're a beginner or not a beginner and four to five times a week and it's a very busy program because belmont is a very diverse place and  i can speak to the statistics of butler elementary almost a third of the kids don't speak english at home and i think people who don't live in belmont don't realize how diverse that is and it's not just one or two different languages that mandarin is program so new families can be paired up with kind of veteran families and i would like to start bedded boller next year so if you would like to come sign up for whether you need help or want to give help sign appear for whatever elementary is in one middle and when i school i think the easiest avenue would be to go to the belmont school's website and find the director of inclusion as a second language is lindsay rinder and she can she can get put you to the right person or every day it was going on in about a month too much and we're getting ready for for back to school now gearing up for a big big new school year and it's a lot of planning for things going on and  belmont what is it what it is in britain for you to be here they're important because anyone who's new to belmont is coming here i want to introduce myself maybe get them to subscribe to the paper or visit our website which is w local belmont this is how you get your news one of the ways we've been around a long time on the bog and b m c two i am i am almost done with my term i've enjoyed thank you we are actually sitting here now with the a group from the belmont league of women voters an organization that we collaborate with quite a bit campaign coverage and during the local campaigns and we are here with patricia hawkins and we study issues like the environmental education we take positions and do not support or oppose political candidates we do study and support and oppose issue are there any election this fall or local election the election this fall really the next i mean the town issue is our failing and vacant seats but there's no real federal or state election in this next election look so actually the town election in april yes i believe that's true but i don't want to be i believe that's true i guess we could all use a break from the last election right right twenty eighteen will be electing a lot of congresspeople supporting the environment we always support belmont education at least that our studies turn out that way we have positions on immigration on international relations and a lot of local issue s have meetings where we present things like affordable housing issues and try to educate the public on matter and i know we work with you in advance of town meeting to do the one briefings and really try to inform people us and presenting us on television and we do appreciate that it's important people know what they're voting on and understand right ballot questions and individuals that it's important they know and it's a good opportunity when we have the candidates night to get to see the candidates in person yeah i like the bumper sticker oh that's good right yeah yeah ok thank you and remember vote are our new fall brochures out the course has and we are offering all sorts of different programs for the kids we have swimming lessons ice skating lessons we have school vacation programs and lots of other brochure on the brochure will be out a registration starts on september fifth online or you can come to the recreation office and register in person and know how we do is add a we just need to be to an even better  have a recreation membership so you'd have to the family needs to purchase a family recreation membership or child membership and you can do that nonresident or resident can purchase the right the nominee's events are a little bit more expensive to purchase even i would register as quickly as possible i swim lessons and skating lessons fill up pretty quickly there are not a lot of there are plenty of spaces available but it does tend to fill up quickly we also have a special needs program where we offer all sorts of recreation programs for adults and kids with special needs so i mean lessons ice skating lessons flag football soccer all those kind of different this is a our program afterschool programs a space with the school department so we have to you know we have to share that space with them thank you very much you said to miss bleach in one of the indian languages are many indian languages actually and we're bridging the cultural gap between india and the western society so we have to show controversial yeah it is about building bridges because india as you know we have a lot of good things you know a lot of bad things so but we project everything so that you know people understand what india is all about we project the culture traffic advisory committee and the committees this guy does a lot of stuff but the belmont dramatic cop has been here in town since one thousand nine hundred three and this is your next did many shows years ago are you going to be looking for people to be in that or you've already got the part sassed but we are always looking for volunteers we're looking for new members and we are trying to make ourselves even better known and belmont we are surprised at the number of people in belmont they don't realize we have our own dramatic club so all the plays are put on at the town hall i'll tell him you know that a patient pocket church forty dollars a year you get two free tickets to both asho we do welcome volunteers to you know people want to work backstage you don't have to be an actor but it's a great community event a community organization and we're just trying to make ourselves known you know we have a lot of dysthymia we have a lot of new citizens come into belmont and we just want to make ourselves known but so much ado about nothing is coming mixed group we have no i dish and so we have singers of all different levels men and women all different vocal abilities and we're just a great group we our first rehearsal is october second we'd love to have some new been i think the course has been going about ten years i personally have only been involved for about three years and we have rehearsal's about ten times a season so we'll be rehearsing mondays at seven thirty at the high school i score ok and how we find you we have a website and that i don't know if someone can get a advisory committee and we're here tonight to present information on cybersecurity safety and the focus of this effort so that the only effort that i tech does or sponsors really residents in the community to help teach them common sense safety tips on how to protect their computers their tablets and their mobile devices like their smart everyone has a chip sure i mean it's really applies to all ages i would say to be honest with you i mean the focus is primarily for people in middle school high school and  adults we are putting on a presentation at the end of october at the belmont library we have a nationally recognized speaker and the precise date and time of that will be on our website  which is part of the town's website but cyber security is an issue that's now affecting just about anybody that owns a cell phone or a computer nowadays and that i would recommend that you come to our presentation at the end of october and the information is on the website page on the town's website well we have a speaker the where is going to be at the belmont library and the when is something where where oh working out with the speaker but it'll be sometime during the last two weeks of october serious condition going on under houston texas so our heart to hearts goes out to them in the town of bomb our very prepared we have the emerging management agency that on the assistant director for we have the fire department and the police department we all work  hand in hand with each other for mirchi planning and we all come together in the time when there's a large scale disaster of the town does have that we haven't had any major large scale disasters the last few years  obviously this is hurricane season and we're getting to the peak time of hurricane season so anything that comes to an east coast of the united states especially down in the tropics we keep a watchful eye on that in case the storm wants to side come up the coast towards new england and then we depending on how the storm progresses for example if it was a hurricane then we would start implementing some of our mirchi plans and getting things in preparation  agency depends on we don't you know we want to keep people in their homes as long as it's going to be safe but if we see situations where we're going to need to evacuate people then we would put to start to put those plans into operation as soon as we and everybody should have some disaster supplies on hand whether that be water nonperishable food and be self sufficient for like seventy two hours that's what we recommend in case there is a large obviously if they're if we have a situation where there's a storm going on and you do have an emergency you know we recommend calling i'm on one and my son will send help as soon as we can get it to you but we want everybody just to be aware and you know people have to make sure that they have the appropriate information that relates to their personal property and that type of stuff and a lot of things you can find either on the master mirchi management website or the american red cross website has a lot of information on how to be prepared you're welcome and i'm not only james what's new where we're looking forward to the start of another school year where we're excited about interacting with all the parents again and around the schools and talking about traffic safety and keeping the kid from residents around the schools we get a lot of complaints from parents trying to take their kids to school drop them off and so it's a busy time especially in the mornings we try to get as many os as we can around the schools to try to get everybody total of thirty eight swan but any time during the day there could be anybody anywhere from florida seven police officers working  annual drug take back and we have a twenty four hour a day seven days a week drug drop our packs in the police station with people that have pain meds opioids any medicines in fact in their houses w and we can be a resource and hopefully point them in the right direction to think so that they can get help together we have a good relationship with everybody so i feels that obama would be prepared in the event of a hurricane or a crisis similar to down in texas