for what we have with them on light so they can talk to each other pretty much for billing in that and i'm hearing some reasons once that is underway then we'll go to the full phase for going out to bid for construction hopefully by the struct installation and hopefully will be underway with that by the end of the year and i'll be about a one year to sixty year and a half project and leave the one you offer an app that the residents can use their phone to actually regulate and see how much use as they have they can have red flags to indicate if they have a leak or not or you know i don't want to consume x y z i'm on a gallon so it's war committee last week where it was discussed but what we're doing is authorizing the borrowing this is not authorizing taking the money out of something to spend it that would be later you can't take the money out of the stabilization fund or out of free cash or anything without town meeting voters authoriz elected by valid at the end of town looking for three year terms so range that nearly an equal number of terms as possible shall expire each year a vacancy on the planning more otherwise then by expiration of the term to section seven point one point one of the zoning by law to appoint one associate member to the planning board for the purposes of course there isn't be any appointed member of the planning board holding office on the effective date of this section shall be entitled to continue to hold office until the year of the scheduled exploration expiration of such members term but no later than the date on which the successor is elected in with a song quite a bit and there are some issues that we should vote for senator on the substantive and i guess the procedural one had to do with why is what we heard from town council that and i don't know if we ever got a resolution that this type of change of the planning board could only be done at a annual town meeting and not a special time meeting right and he was sending it to the attorney general's office to get a clarification whether that meant annual as in capital a annual spring town meeting or it meant that you could only do it once per year and you really get a town meeting and seem to  responding so it seems to me that before we get to the substance of it do we want to go for the something that could end up being dollar fine and we have to go do it all over again so i don't see any immersion to be honest i don't see an emergency what this is about is the pla staff them and see how things are going with them because i think right now things have been heated for a period of time now i'm not a general fan of making huge substantive changes when tempers are still raw emotions are already high yeah i think it might be better let it cool down a little bit i don't know problem i think i said this at the beginning when this first came up of dealing with it in the spring because a i feel it's more of an annual time eating rather than piggybacking on this meeting with get the modular money and the second part of although not to say it's out of order is perfectly in order the second piece of it is you know letting the things calm down the new planning board get their footing before we go forward i can tell you that some of these people who've reached out to me about you may be applying to the planning board of had some second instance one of the four of the sites that we're filling right now is going to be up in a year the remainder of that one term is only you know long and a lot of people think you are not going to run for them why would i go in there and just be there for a year so i think what we're doing is we're lawyer where there wasn't a better who opposed the particular project whether it was good or not and sometimes these boards have to do things that are for the good of the whole community even though they get a lot of political pushback from the people who live right there and you start to wonder and this is why we don't elect judges in the state you know is there going to be undue pressure politically from us a core group of neighbors and the people summers and get worried about being reelected and turn down a product that might be good or approve a project that might not be good so i'm not sure it sets up the motivation that we're looking for for something that's kind of quasi i should initial may keep in mind that the plane or by the proposed zoning changes town meeting approves the zoning changes the way boards it's not like there's not an elected body that deals with these the when it gets to that t's tough to get people to apply even when you just have to send in a resume and a one page application be that much less run for office i you know i would prefer before i bled to talk to george thomas to sheriff and i mean i have preferred any right to put this off till spring time eating and let a table with the same go to single table it let things cool down and go for although the concept of it you know i still have an issue with that i'm not with the world come to an if we make it like to play an important i'm sure it'll be you know we like decent for the most part and it's and things muddle through but i think what we want like a lawyer and a planner and we want an architect on the planning board to bring a bunch of have the architect point of view i think we're very serious and we're very choosy in how we pick people not just who they are but what their background is so we have a bore that's varied in skills that's my feeling heart i mean actually spring beyond the five members of associate because i think the so much work that needs to be done here i think unfortunately will take place as folks just won't run and you have folks that are on the beam not be take you know frankly even though there might be some disagreement with some of our you know historical appointments and lesbo and hold us accountable the board selected as your point years already so if you're not happy with what you were pointing to the planning board you can certainly run against us or not vote for us and i think there's a responsibility of accountability to the police board should have for now i think we should recommend unfavorable action the other point i want to make in the broader point we needed to sell this tonight is that there's a lot of discussion within our community about how work governed to study committee for five member board select been prefer the intentions behind it and the work that people put into this i think it's a good discussion to be having i'm looking forward to town meeting because i've really wrestled this in the back and forth with it and i know people it doesn't seem to seem and i poll people just walking around that doesn't seem to have any political stripes want significant historical buildings based upon statements which is on the application it is not us associated with the events that have made a significant contribution to our history and replaced with a black woman in a glass storefronts which is really covers what eighty percent of the building one of my biggest concerns if this concrete parapet wall structure above the store number of projects in my practice and keep in mind as demolition delays not demolition prevention as all means is that you have to wait a period of time before you can demolish it doesn't stop anyone from actually demolishing the will with the list could be used rationale that was presented the first thing with regard to the building being associated with events that have made significant contribution to our history i will just draw your attention to and area of don't mind and that that inventory form which is quite extensive talks about the development of that part of belmont as an important a street car suburb and that it is significant in many areas areas of commerce community planning and architecture and the property in question is pictured in there and referenced in that inventory form so that was so we would say that in fact the building at one ninety one to two or three belmont street is important to the historical development of as the street cars are better where you have this constellation of residential development and single story and single story commercial development we are in agreement that it is not associated with a significant historical person and that it has not been designated as historically significant at the national state or local level with regard to its architectural significance we looked very very carefully both at the inventory forms that our consultant lisa masai prepared and all of the potential properties that were evaluated as possibly significant and worthy of being clued it on the demolition delay list and i think it's fair to say that no nobility from want is an altered and the challenge there is determining whether or not the alterations that occur over time that allow all of us to live and work in historic buildings have preserved the distinguishing characteristics of that structure and in this case this is a really beautiful it's a beautiful building the storefront replacement is basically the window have been replaced but the art architectural articulation has been reproduced served the distinguishing characteristics of the cast concrete have been preserved and so it is our view that the building still has sufficient integrity to convey its historic associations so we would dispute that  that rationale and then with regard to the other concerns i would just like to reiterate as selectman dash has that this is a demolition delay by law it is not an architectural review by was and we are we keep the questions and the issues moving very very fast so this being on the list does not impact a property owner's ability to care for and maintain and repair and in fact alter the buildings on this list and as you know we cannot really do anything that regulates properties in belmont honor altering or doing any all it does is make you have to wait if you want to tear it down so i don't really see what what the problem is with paying us if you're concerned that somehow they're going to turn it into a store to store a there's no plan for those who have to go to town meeting i'm not official what properties are designated is either local stay are nationally important now there are very few properties in belmont in fact that are listed on the national register and th so purpose of a town wide historical inventory is to look at the properties that are important to art thou so in fact we consider it we consider these one hundred eighty two look at this and i'm sorry i'm not reacting the same with that is that you know the awful sort of situation at the clark clark houses so you know i think you know and i know that's not the way to react historic structures but i look at this war and said ok i mean i don't think it's going to be demolished i don't look at this and we really want to preserve and i think it will be preserved this to ensure that we pay respect to the historic nature of our community and not reaching that  encompassed hundreds of buildings and we said no that we wanted them to look at the ones of true you have historical value and they when they came back with this much much reduced list they got passed by town meeting so i think tom even said property right factual demonstration that the building does not meet what you know at least one of the criteria and we are set we have it is the opinion of the historic district commission it didn't appear there was anything that was in the point of this cheer there from my point of view that it's great to just look at the numbers but you know have some brief commentary or you know i just mentioned anything other than sort of what would be considered consistent you know i did ask for the this planning document to be given to us and this is something that i would like to work with the war committee on and this is the projection mark david gave to us and i'm not saying that it's necessarily important for us to resolve anything tonight because we do have to be mindful we have this normally i wouldn't rush but because twenty one and twenty two and i believe those reflect the two and a half percent increase that were committed under prop two and a half and then the new you know so that's why when you those are fairly interesting numbers for those who understand the way for taxes for the town assessed valuation is somewhere around one eighty seven i'm trying to codified pretty much what practice has been so that if there are any issues going forward you can just point to the rules and go here it is one had to do with people speaking at the meetings putting in here making a comment  items on the agenda and this is something that i've always been confused as to how this goes about i think it may be good to write it down that if any one of us wants to put something on the agenda that we can put it on the agenda i think that's right i've always been a bit uncertain as to how that happens i mean traditionally it seems as though someone was on the agenda it pretty much goes on the agenda so i would sort of think we should write that down number seven is just stating that we would abide by the it's calling out the actual  by law giving the power to the town administrator and certain tasks of the divides of a task we have and the task they have seventy that we're going to follow the logic of course we do anyway is the only one that me that's actually got to change this one is not related to anything in particular search committee for the time the minister nor would i for the g m for the like department i don't tend to put one of us on that search committee either because i think they're going to be calling both the candidates down a given and us and we make that decision it gives one person i'm not saying that this happens but i just think there's one person the opportunity to be put a famine the scale or or limit who gets given to the greater poor i don't know it's not illegal i checked i ran these by george hall by the way he made some comments which i've incorporated  just don't know that it's appropriate to do that i would prefer not to do and i have no intention of any of us serving on the white boards geom search committee for that reason and so that what that says is that we will not go on a search committee that ultimately comes back to us for the ultimate appointment and then nine allows us to by unanimous vote suspended leaders rules he we decide to switch around like the year you switched around the chair went to the ward committee in the vice chair went to the capital budget committee but that would enable that t exit so i think this is helpful for future select mindef something in writing especially if we go to five you may note that i put i try to put like two thirds vote instead of two one you know to select from trying to have everything  in place in case that happens which would mean what happened so those are that's the rationale behind this i think you avoid some issues as we see that we've been having on various things like the committee point which you could avoid the planning board issues where we have the the liquor license rules i think that could avoid the whole loading dock star market kind of controversy this could avoid who's going to work committee has not won the war committed or who can speak and when what i think whether you like what i've written or not particular i think we should write it down