so i would like to call the june third meeting the resumption of the two thousand and five truce mean fifteen annual meeting of the town of  month to order and could we stand by the pledge of allegiance vote and i want to be clear about this we shouldn't vote until i have said the polls are open so i'll be in i'll be clear about that and so just wait because i think what's happened is some people have voted actually before the polls are open and therefore their vote doesn't register and then that presents confusion on your device you will know that your vote has been recorded obvious you can see up there if the green light shows in other words that will indicate that you voted and then the little play so it will tell what you voted in the little square l e d here so you've got you can look at your device and confirm that you voted so if we're ready glenn when are we ready to vote right the polls are open and those vote want a president unless you're  and make sure you push it long enough to see your green light  that anybody have any problem if you have any problems or voting electronically during the meeting then come over here and we'll fix the problem thank you if there was a unanimous consent of the town meeting as we normally do i will ask town clerk to read only the return of the warrant without reading the text of each printed article alan i l n o bryan hershman town clerk clerk's official bulletin board in the town hall and at least five other places in town giving notice that the annual town meeting had not been completed and had been continued to me music festival this is summer twenty five which is really remarkable the series runs every wednesday evening starting approximately six forty five and the be between eleven and twelve concerts this summer and there are four children's concerts on fridays beginning about ten thirty so thank you tommy and thank you all hope but your efforts into a very successful enterprise it's all need financial cost as a town and secondly just want to say thank you to lots of people who are responsible for producing the town meeting david and phyllis and the office of the selectmen but then particularly alan meg dan and nancy in the town clerk's office is a huge amount of effort that's only in the intent we haven't done it yet if if it getting later and we have to make a call as to whether we hang in there and go a little late or resume for a shorter session on monday i will get a sense of town meeting and be directed by you is to which way we go we have one only one report under article one tonight and then proceed to our business but first a motion on the order of the article mr baghdad sammy baghdadi chair of the board of selectmen morrow at the town meeting here the motions in the following order one eighteen sixteen fifteen eleven nineteen twenty nine reconsideration twenty one twenty two twenty three twenty four and a discussion of those in favor please say i  adopted unanimously mr baghdadi sammy baghdadi chair of the board of selectmen move that article one be taken from the table all those in favor please say i pose no adopted unanimously and now introduce clan plan c director of community development who will give a brief update on the trip palo road project mr clancy good evening to moderate a glen clancy director of community development i'm going to give you a quick report on the polo road reconstruction project which probably rolled down one street reconstruction project is a two point five mile fourteen point six million dollars project the limit of work is from beaverbrook reservation at mill street to the city of cambridge line at ericsson street but yes it can you just move the microphone up a little you go thank you better yes shall i start again full bicycle accommodation couple of words about the process in two thousand and five the traffic advisory committee held a series of public meetings in order to solicit thoughts and ideas on how to improve the corridor for all users pedestrians shoppers business owners cyclists and motorists a truly collaborative effort along the way several groups but just a paid in the design process the belmont citizens forum the planning board the shadetree committee historic district commission belmont housing authority and town meeting itself departments who are also active participants public works health department fire police and the town administrators office the town of them want leveraged one point five million dollars in design fees to secure fourteen point six million dollars in construction money the construction would not have been possible without funding secured from the state and federal government we were fortunate to receive the federal earmark through the work of congressman markey which helped fund the design throughout the nine years of project development the board selectmen support never wavered and often members would journey into boston for the semiannual meetings held before the funding authority to make the case for the project from design development through funding and even today while the construction is ongoing senator will brownsburg has been a consistent source of support whether attending funding meetings in answering constituent inquiries interacting with state agencies or literally going door to door securing approvals from abiding property owners will and his staff have gone above and beyond to ensure the success of the project the project is scheduled to last two years year one included the construction season of two thousand and fourteen and saw work performed from the preservation to roughly the cushing square area the project is expected to be completed this year the contractor is making every effort to complete the project this year mast e o t has an agreement with the m b t a to provide diesel buses until september thirtieth street to poplar street the final top course is expected soon in that area new traffic signals are installed in several locations however they will not be activated until the final paving occurs and permanent pavement markings are applied sidewalks have been installed from mill street to cushing square except in areas where coordination with the installation of traffic signals is still required curbing and sidewalk work is currently occurring along belmont street on the pace and road side of the project upgrades also continue along belmont street several people have commented on the sensor units installed on top of the new traffic signals these units replace the detector systems that were historically placed in the roadway this is the new master the o t standard and it is aimed at avoiding loss of signal operations due to damage to the detectors by utility excavations in general where the sensor units do not record or transmit images they sense the presence of the vehicle in the intersection and adjust the timing accordingly installing new traffic signals can be difficult because the new signals must be in place and operable before the old signals can be removed often space is limited and as a result you end up with sidewalks that are crowded with multiple signal poles in control of cabinets once work is completed the old equipment is removed sidewalks will be clear again and accessibility requirements will be met some of the new sidewalks place last year are showing defects since it is not immediately clear what caused the problem as a precaution masti ot suspended work in question square while the matter was investigated we are waiting on the final report that will explain the cause of the defects and possible remedies in the meantime newport construction has made changes with their concrete supplier and masti o t has approved commencement of sidewalk work and if you visit the cushion square recently you'll see the sidewalks concrete is being placed in cushing square which is a great sign in closing if you drive the car today you will see the project coming together from mill street to cushing square curving is set sidewalks are in and trees are planted in some locations new center islands are being introduced in order to better channel traffic flow and give neighborhoods and commercial areas a unique identity in the coming months work will continue down belmont street and final paving along with pavement markings will be completed along the entire two point five miles of roadway once finished the new to pella road belmont street corridor along with ongoing work done under the pavement management program will send a positive message that belmont is making gains improving the quality of its roads thank you tami baghdadi chair of the board of selectmen move that article one be laid on the table all those in favor please say i oppose nay adopted unanimously article eighteen  on and i think there's slides in terms of the revolving funds just go through them briefly and is to understand them as a description and under the revolving account with the spending the authority is the revenue source of the revolving fun the allowed expenditure pence's in the expenditure limits most important aspect here is these a self contained funds they don't come out of the general fund it all is a programs that are sponsored by the receipts that are received by the time the part ends but the most important thing to understand is that the expenditure limits they cannot be exceeded without authorisation that cannot be exceeded and that you as a body bore selectman in the work committee if in fact there is a need to  fund there are two though that to take it to new ones this year oprah stormwater consulting in stormwater improvements the spending authority is of course community development and you can still see the stated purpose in the programs they are in the expenditure limits  so again these are establish under mass general laws it's a place to set aside revenue received through fees and charges so again it's not an appropriation from a general fund these are self to spain ing programs if you  request or an expenditure receipts are kept by the treasurer and in a separate account i think the accounting department doesn't fact approve it in regard to the particular program and in again it's the same review and approval process as all other municipal bill payments and having taken questions and a discussion the motion under article eighteen we now turn to a series of capital budget amendments which is going to be the focus of most of our action tonight and mary mahoney who is chair of the capital budget committee will give an overview reason first and then we will turn to article sixteen and there are four motions under article sixteen and we'll go through those one by one as mahoney thank you mr moderator moderator bill ackman town meeting members department heads employees and yes thank you for allowing me to give a brief reports on the f y sixteen capital budget at this point fire up your calculator applications because you're going to need them this is a complicated story and they're letting me use the clicker tonight so prepare to be excited this evening i will review our committee process particularly for those new town meeting members i'll give an overview of our budget as it unfolds this year i will review our priorities and what we funded i will discuss bonding and i will look at the recommendations of the financial task force we start with the capital budget committee there are seven of us on the committee jenny fallon represents the warren committee michael battista represents the planning board myself we are a diverse group we are a talented group and we are a group that has deep experience in town government and in particular in building project i'd like to thank becky who was our secretary for all of the work on the minutes along with lisa r clarke becky and pat for all the work that we did on the town report it's not easy twenty seven pages i hope that by now you've read it if you haven't i want you to go home tonight and read it because it's fast in addition to that we draw on the expertise at our meetings and in between times of david calle town administrator phyllis marshall len castro what carmen and chitra remain ian ok for are off all right first thing we do is we get a very thick binder of requests from the town department heads those have already come through and been vetted by the town administrator we review all of those requests we then interview the department has one at a time and give them an opportunity to explain their request and we have an opportunity for a give and take with them on the details of what they would like us to fund we eventually well first we do some clarifying questions often we'll have a department head back in after we've heard from everybody but usually it's that with e mail can you just clarify this item or that item we then among ourselves conduct a straw poll where we try to have some kind of sense of where we are in the process we try to weigh the merits of each item or the town for the town's mission or its cost for how long that item is going to last what's its longevity or its store ability what is the priority of each request within the department and then we look at the priority of it within all of our requests the straw poll is an opportunity for each of us to say yes no or maybe obviously those items they get unanimous yeses from all of the us all of us we fund and then we work our way through yeses and maybe these yeses and no maybes unknowns until we get in doing the straw poll process we discovered over the years that this is very helpful because it allows us to further thus those items and not only really understand what they are but understand where they should be in a priority for us given our funding at the end we add a subtract items even given on the bottom line whatever that figure is initiator our funding figure is changed in some cases week by week so we were always adjusting a little bit up and down and then finally as close to town meeting as we can get vote on the final recommended budget so i stand here tonight before you a town meeting to deliver to you a well thought out a balanced and a fair budget of capital items within the money that has been allocated basic overview our initial request totaled five million four hundred thousand dollars a lot of money but no it's not up we lost the screen see never give me the electronic to places where i worked they wouldn't let me near the photocopy machine do not let mahoney touch the photocopy machine under any circuit all right initial requests of five point four million dollars let's review the money we had available to fund potentially that five point four million chapter nine year olds money i'm going to break this out in a minute but the total is eight hundred one three hundred ninety eight dollars water and sewer receipts nine hundred eighty one thousand five hundred dollars we had money from the two thousand and one roads override one point five million dollars we also had turned back of one hundred fifty four thousand dollars the turn backs are when we fund a project and obviously department head gives us an estimate this project is going to cost one hundred thousand dollars they go out they write th they bid it they purchase whatever that is if the purchase price is lower for example it comes in that five thousand dollars that fifteen thousand dollars comes back to the capital budget and so every year we review expenditures and we get turned backs and that's good because we put them towards another capital budget in this case this year it was over one hundred fifty thousand dollars and then finally we are designated an amount of capital budget money from the board of selectmen and this year initially that was one million twelve thousand dollars if you do your math the note that that leaves a potential unfunded total of one million two hundred thousand dollars but still a lot of items however but wait there's more in april we had the two thousand fifteen override that gave us two hundred thousand dollars for sidewalks an additional three hundred thousand dollars to put towards roads one hundred twenty thousand dollars in cash that equaled five hundred thousand dollars of bonding capacity hold that saudi in your mind for when i get the borrowing slides so then down the road the more weeks goes by and we are allocated from the board of selectmen three hundred eighty six thousand dollars in one time funds this is additional state aid that we were not anticipating and we are eternally grateful to the board of selectmen for allowing us to take that money because we have used it  therefore that gives us in capital discretionary money to spend one million eight hundred eighteen thousand dollars pavement management a total of one million five hundred forty nine thousand dollars there will be more added to that but for right now chapter ninety eight gets added to it eight hundred one thousand dollars and then water and sewer which i mentioned before at five hundred three thousand and four hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars doing pretty well let's take a look at our capital discretionary priorities i am going to go through the capital discretionary money not by department but by priority or by category because i think that makes a more coherent story for you we always place a number one priority on public safety the big ticket item this year is the belmont high school alarm system at a total cost of around numbers one point two million dollars i will address how we intend to fund that purchase in a bit when we get to the borrowing but let's talk about the purchase itself first the information that we have to date on the high school fire alarm system the system is a original to belmont high school which means it was installed hundred seventy one it must be replaced as soon as possible there are no known replacement parts or short term fixes bites we continue to explore those possibilities the building must be closed if the system fails the building is too big and too spread out and we simply do not have enough fire personnel to do a twenty four seven fire watch which is what would be required if distant failed the system will take some time to define design and build out the system must be installed when the building is empty for longer than a vacation week but that means summer and that means that our intent our goal right now to have that alarm system installed in the summer of two thousand and six it is our hope that we can salvage some of the system in a renovation of the high school but there's no guarantees any questions on anything that i am doing they have to the end and i'm happy to talk about the system and i have fire department police department everybody else school department here who can answer any additional questions on that purchase in the fire alarm fim we have the butler fire alarm at one hundred forty three thousand dollars we have the town hall fire alarm at forty thousand dollars we understand that this alarm has had issues since it was installed in one nine hundred ninety nine in addition to that we have a town and school security system upgrade this is a five year project the one hundred thousand dollars we radios another complicated story let me walk through it and you're going to see it revisited when i talk about borrowing in this year's discretionary budget is one hundred twenty three thousand four hundred fifteen dollars for police radios this is part of a bigger public safety communications akhet this is a quick meant that we have rolled that back up we are looking at our five year plan and we are looking at requests in both this year and next year and we are seeing a big akhet of police and fire radios and equipment we have known that this was coming down the road the two chiefs have been very good about keeping us apprised of the need for this we've known for three or four years that this was coming and they have continually updated the cost this is not a surprise we decided that we would roll all of it together into one big purchase so that everything is done at once and there's no confusion there's no in compatibility we'll just get it done so it's three parts one three hundred ten thousand dollars for equipment at the antenna site on belmont six hundred seventy eight thousand three hundred fifty dollars for public safety communications equipment at the police station ninety eight thousand dollars for fire department portable radios those three pieces are going to be and i'll get to that so right now we have one hundred twenty three thousand that's coming out of our budget three pieces that are going to be bonded and what else they say the ninety thousand yes thank you  they'll be one more piece that will have to go into the seventeen budgets to complete the whole purchase traffic speed mitigation anybody who has ever driven through the intersection of sycamore  the streets knows how dangerous that intersection is so we're going to do some speed mitigation on that forty eight thousand dollars with a raised intersection burbank's sidewalk for being on sharp road for thirty five thousand dollars this is for additional pedestrian safety those pedestrians mostly being little children and in particular for drop off and pick up safety and then finally the library will have a ten thousand dollar gas powered equipment outdoor storage shed because you would never put your snowblower or your lawn more into your house and so we don't think the library should either  y there's more large equipment and resource replacement we always want to try to stay ahead of emergencies but to killie when you talk about this past winter and the pressure that put on a lot of our resources now we are funding to what sounds like two very different things and they are boiler replacements and basketball court replacements butler boiler replacement is sixty two thousand five all rolled into one by one high school basketball court for replacement this is a partnership with private donors so that we are putting one hundred thousand dollars towards this project private donors will be putting another chunk of money around eighty thousand dollars towards that project and this will allow us to replace both of our city and the junior varsity high school basketball courts at the same time finally q basketball court resurface at twenty five thousand dollars part of ongoing projects that we do for recreation for tennis courts and basketball ongoing maintenance programs as you know in the past we've had ongoing roofing programs and units and replacement at the high school and we've had for years now an envelope work ongoing project this year we're dedicating a hundred and fifty thousand five hundred five dollars towards envelope work at the butler school vehicles if you like the way your sidewalks were cleared by the town this year we are buying another one of those fancy snow blowers we bought a different kind of snow blower last year we were convinced that it was a good idea and even the winter we were happy we did so we're buying another one for ninety thousand seven hundred dollars we are also purchasing a fifteen passenger recreation van for the sports program at thirty two thousand four hundred fifty dollars and we are purchasing a turf field utility tractor for twenty five thousand nine hundred eighty five dollars this tractor will be used on the harris football field it will keep all that rubber stuff turned up and been it will also make the snow off it if necessary and it's a vehicle that can be used on the rest of the fia what's not to  studies back back to the start to study this library feasibility study you heard this from the library trustees the other night we agreed to split the total cost of this study it's ninety thousand dollars but capital budget will put forty five thousand dollars towards it as you heard the other night it's for the library to be ready for the next grant round and it is to study they are building on the existing site unity pass feasibility study one hundred choosing it will also allow the past to qualify for state and federal money apple budget committee does not intend for this project to use any additional town money and therefore jump ahead of the other major projects that need to be addressed have been assured that by providing money for the feasibility study date and federal funds will be available out to the borrowing we have two large borrowings this year the first is for the high school fire alarm system at this time the estimated cost is one million one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars do the math we don't have that kind of money that's a whole allocation board of selectmen so the only way to fund this within the capital budget is through borrowing because it will take a while as i noted to design and bid this project it will not actually be on did until f y seventeen in f y sixteen we will apply the override allocation of ash of one hundred twenty thousand dollars towards the project in order to reduce the amount that will need to be borrowed in f y seventeen boss in f y seventeen we anticipate borrowing one million fifty five thousand dollars this will be a five year bond the average payment over the five years is two hundred thirty six thousand dollars this comes right up off the top of the capital budget allocation each year  next is the radio system for police and fire department that i talked about earlier total cost one million eighty six thousand three hundred fifty dollars as i explained earlier the estimated cost is for the street chunks of equipment that i outlined this will be a ten year bond it also will not be bonded until f y seventeen and therefore it will go through f y twenty six same reasons we're waiting till seventeen and department breathing apparatus so it's a trade off for us with a little bit added on so the average payment over those ten years will be one hundred thirty two thousand dollars and that also will come right off the top of the capital budget allocation listing fire equipment i just want to make note so that everything is out there for you fire department breathing equipment breathing apparatus is a four year lease this is the fourth year hundred twenty thousand dollars is retired after this but in fact w trading it out this other purchase we also have the ambulance and cardiac monitor replacement system fifty seven thousand dollars that's fifty to replace the ambulance fifty to replace the cardiac monitor on it this is the system we have set up where we're taking receipts from ambulance runs that in a side seven thousand dollars each year for five years so at the end of the five years we have the money to buy another ambulance and cardiac roads and sidewalk this is all of the money that's going to be spent on roads and sidewalks from f y sixteen walked the two hundred thousand dollars which came from the override in april for the roads one point two four nine million thousand and one override three hundred thousand from the two hundred fifteen override two hundred sixty six thousand five hundred six dollars this is money from f y if gene which was held back by governor patrick but released by governor baker at the beginning of january and then r f y sixteen chapter my situation or ninety allotment of five hundred thirty four thousand eight hundred ninety two dollars that makes a grand total even management of two million five hundred fifty thousand three hundred and ninety eight dollars this is an all time high for us and this is the absolute drop dead back some amount of money that when and j ews on roads and sidewalks and if you have any questions about that i will drag them both up here to explain to you but this is the max we're spending at all am to the us financial task force as you know financial task force reported out in january there was a capital subgroup on which i served two sets of recommendations first one was for the yearly discretionary budget and that is that the capital budget should be funded at the three million dollar mark every year in order to catch up and maintain our large requests all of the requests that we get every year  i would suggest when you go through our capital budget report take a good look at those out years because there's a lot of expensive stuff there that we are going to have to fund in the future  major capital projects let's review capital budget committee during our off months a couple of years ago developed a set of criteria for the board of selectmen were prioritizing capital projects this criteria was picked up and used by the capital subgroup of the financial task force in addition to all the other things we did which was interview department heads up to cost estimates to some financial analysis and other in depth work on the outstanding capital projects of the four major projects left to do our conclusion was that if the criteria were clear need identified site shovel ready plan updated cost estimate the priority would be the d p w which could start any time we had money from a debt exclusion to let them go and then belmont high school because it also is ready but we're waiting for state money the library they are going to do their feasibility study and they are dependent on a state grant around and finally the police station not because it is less worthy in fact one could argue that it is the most worthy of the four projects but because there is no available site that we have identified to date for the police department however having said all of that the group did recommend that if state funding came in soon then of course belmont high school would go forward first all of these are expensive projects all of them have dire needs belmont high school is estimated with the state funding to be seventy million dollars or more d p w comes in at twenty eight million dollars the library with both state and private funding eighteen million dollars and the police station twenty million but that could vary depending on the site i would like to remind everybody that when the town leaders gathered in january of the year two thousand and the so called mega group to begin conversations about capital project planning the list of buildings and projects was very very long in the past fifteen years we have completed two fire stations a senior center the town hall the home we're building and the school administration renovations we have built a new will and wellington school we have done the hours track and field weiss in the works right now as we've been hearing in the last couple of we have accomplished but we owe it to the other town departments to complete the outstanding projects as efficiently and as quickly as we possibly can finally additional classroom space i just want to put this as a marker on your radar the school people mentioned this on monday it appears that whether we build it or not they are still going to come belmont is a convenient and desirable place to live and we are seeing an influx of students at all levels and all grades additional space may well be required at multiple buildings by september of two thousand and seventeen we don't know yet what form that space will take which buildings will need to have it but certainly the capital budget committee will be involved in those discussions and potentially some of the funding last our thank you thank you especially to the department heads we really love working with you they're all great we appreciate your cooperation both with us but what we appreciate more is your cooperation among yourselves auckland and for ezell gerry boyle when clancy emily reardon who was the interim library director we offer a warm welcome to jay markov of the d p w is guy sure knows when to change jobs just  the first snowflakes started to fall and finally peter strews yaro our new library director we also thank those department heads we had no requests for us this year health i t town clerk we appreciate your sensitivity to the limits of our budget we thank you the citizens for your thoughtful votes on the override and we thank the board of selectmen for giving us one time funds thank you town meeting members for playing both attention to all of this detail and i hope i have not burned out your electronic device calculators thank you thank you miss moni we now turn to bore motions under article sixteen and as moni will read the motions and then we'll discuss each of them separately as moni and member precinct one chairman of the capital budget committee moved that one million eight hundred eighteen thousand three hundred sixty five dollars be appropriated for the purchase of public safety equipment site improvements public works equipment equipment for town facilities and consulting services in connection there with to construct public ways and for building and facility and public works construction and for major maintenance and alterations including design more as follows said some to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the board of selectmen then like me to believe  would be appy to do a ready guys partner public works sidewalk snow blower ninety thousand seven hundred dollars but i'd walk maintenance two hundred thousand dollars pickup truck replacement thirty nine thousand two hundred fifty dollars turf field utility tractor twenty five thousand nine hundred eighty five dollars resurface basketball it when the five thousand dollars recreation fifteen passenger van replacement thirty two thousand four hundred fifty dollars for a sub total of four hundred thirteen thousand three hundred eighty five dollars under the police department one hundred twenty three thousand four hundred fifteen dollars for replacement of portable radios subtotal one two three for one five library storage shed for gas powered equipment ten thousand dollars is ability study forty five thousand dollars for a sub total of fifty five thousand dollars fire department public safety equipment lease payment here for one hundred twenty thousand dollars ambulance replacement year three fifty thousand dollars party act monitor replacement also year three seven thousand dollars subtotal one hundred seventy seven thousand dollars facilities department town school security upgrades design here to a five year multi year upgrades one hundred thousand dollars belmont high school fire alarm system replacement one hundred twenty thousand dollars town hall fire alarm system replacement forty thousand dollars belmont high school basketball courts or replacement one hundred thousand dollars butler school system wide building and will open one hundred fifty thousand five hundred five dollars butler school boiler replacement sixty two thousand five hundred dollars butler school fire alarm system replacement one hundred forty three thousand two hundred fifty dollars burbank school boiler replacement one hundred fifty thousand three hundred ten dollars or sub total of eight hundred sixty six thousand five hundred sixty five dollars community development burbank school curbing and sidewalks thirty five thousand mitigation razed intersection at lexington street and sycamore street forty eight thousand dollars community past his ability study one hundred thousand dollars per sub total of one hundred eighty three thousand dollars grand total of capital expenditures one million eight hundred want to do this one million eight hundred eighteen thousand three hundred sixty five dollars as the capital budget committee a vote the capital budget committee unanimously recommends favorable action and the board of selectmen the board of selectmen unanimously recommends favorable action and the warrant committee or in committee unanimously recommends favorable action we now cunningham kevin cunningham precinct four i appreciate that we need a fire alarm replacement for safety reasons i'm just wondering if you could guess a little bit your thoughts like your process for first of all where the one point two million figure came from in terms of was there a large range of possible replacements and so forth and then secondly how did you think about the question of if the high school is voted yes how does that impacted and we go back and one point one seven five million the reason that even let's do it this way even if the school department received a letter from the state this december when the letters come out and said yes we're going to give you money you can get started it's going to take several years to do all the design work do all the bidding do all the refining blah blah blah and so therefore in that interim we still need a fire alarm system so under the best possible scenario if we got the letter in december it would be three years four years two years two plus two before we would even start the construction it is our hope that some of it and be salvaged but we have been told not to expect that this system has to fit under the ceiling in the building because we can't actually specials that's above the ceilings and so that becomes a little more complicated i think therefore a little more expensive the all of the wiring has to run in conduit that is your question on that then i'll do the best just one little item and turn on the other part of it was only whether  estimate were there are a range of possible systems to bring in or is there just a standard that one has to bring in knowing that a high school may be replacing it with the right be a perfectly safe but reason you know is there are different mounts i'm sure there is i can't answer that question specifically i think perhaps gerry boyle or chief rozelle would be able to answer that question more in detail than i can i'm sure there's a range i also ensure that as the specs are done and it salvaged in a renovation absolutely yes because i don't think that piece of the building is going to be touched very much that otherwise wouldn't do it now that would be foolish so therefore yes that will absolutely be salvaged and protected in a renovation thank you precinct three i'm just wondering how this happened to come up this year in terms of the fire alarms for the school versus last year or next year was there something that happened with the fire alarm system some new knowledge that was gained as being as it was explained to him remembering to me a person one gymkhana she knows this and she's got a little button that she just presses in and all that comes up on her screen this yes this has been known for a while because it's more than forty years and so therefore you know nothing last forever and certainly the alarm system is not going to last you know forty years but yes it's been known for a while but it's also been known for a while that we were going to do some major work on that high school and so it kept getting pushed out as we kept saying oh but wait we're going to renovate the building and finally it's the confluence of the state hasn't approved our application and wait that alarm system is failing and so we really have to do something now and it's unfortunate because what it's done is eat up all of the bonding capacity that the override gave us for both sixteen and  seventeen and simplex got sold i forgot about that simplex which install the alarm system and which at one time was a very big alarm system company because we don't want them here in the middle school and some of the other buildings of selectmen sandy the hundred thousand does not include a design of the alexander underpass but we are hoping that it will  include whether it is possible to have the underpass as the community path is designed and whether that could be covered with the state funding that we're expecting yes  a precinct one i'm just wondering first of all great report it was just in the presentation of his super easy to follow so i'm just wondering whether it makes any sense or someone's than the math whether it makes any sense to borrow earlier than seventeen given how low interest rates are and maybe see i know that you took the money you don't need the money right away so would be a drag on the money right now about how much rates have to rise before you're sorry that you didn't do it earlier mr karma is coming up to address the money but in terms of when we would be ready to go on and it's going to take us a while in both cases to do the design the specifications and the bidding but mr carmine can speak  to offset one another so it's kind of a neutral from that perspective so i'm suggesting the possibility of considering using the cash later and bonding now since it's so cheap to borrow right now  system the way the override was presented to the citizens it would be one hundred twenty thousand dollars of on me capacity in fiscal year sixteen one hundred twenty thousand dollars a bonding capacity in school year seventeen so we're abiding by the way she has of the voters we do not have two hundred forty thousand dollars of bonnie capacity in fiscal year sixteen thank yes thank you mr moderator rachel berger precinct two i sort of have the opposite sort of question on the fire alarm in the high school how concerned should we be that it will survive the next thirteen months and that we won't all need out and the other experts have told me and they have said that when there's crossed it will last schieffer zell might be able to give a little more detail on that i don't mean to put him on the spot but you know it worked right memorial day at work so we're grateful for that good evening david for sell your fire chief we are on borrowed time with that fire alarm system gratefully it did work memorial day when we did have a fire at the high school we are in serious jeopardy of having to clo that building should it fail and so we're doing our due diligence in due diligence to get this project moving as fast as we can given all the constraints keeping both fingers crossed and everything else you can cross that things are going to work creations and what happens to the old stuff if i go out and buy a new car i try to sell my old car so do we get any money back on that and what happens to the money yes and remotely  how many men are present one depending on what the vehicle is many times a vehicle is passed down so it comes off the front line but it's used either by that department or by another department as a backup as in general in terms of the sport than i suspect that that ban will be sold and that money perhaps would come back to us as turn back money in the ambulance the ambulance i cannot answer that question i know we're a few years away on the ambulance because we're in year three of the five year plan  it will become the back up ambulance of course thank you it will become the backup ambulance and the new one will become the front line so i guess in general what i want to insure you because this is a question that we always have when we meet with the department heads it's usually when we're buying pickup trucks and you know shift commander vehicles and all those things they have the department has have already worked out a rotation even with the fire engines ladder trucks everything a rotation on all that equipment so that it continues to be used but in a lesser capacity either by that department or by another department and then when the vehicle is completely run into the ground maybe we're selling it for parts i'm not sure yes or we miss our missing three question about the informal discussions about what to do about the high school down the road right have always been well enough to renovate or rebuild but with these  essentially committed to renovating and was there any discussion man's yes awhile back several studies have been done a lot of work has been done by the school department by capital people by the permanent building committee on what should happen to the high school the high school itself is an amazingly stable and great building its shell is breaks so there's no need to knock it down we're not in a position of a natick or newton or a concord or any of those places that have replaced high schools that are roughly the same age as ours is high school was built to last forever but since one hundred seventy one forty five years whatever certainly the systems need work now we've been very diligent about keeping up the roof h b a c system we've been replacing the unit vents and we'll open work we've been really good about doing what we could with that building but two things are needed upgrade in you know plumbing electricity this fire alarm system doors interior furnishings flooring and we need a little additional space in particular for science and so what is being proposed is a combination of a renovation of this an upgrade essentially of this building and in addition for better and more up to date science labs but this has been discussed since i was on the school committee and i got off near two thousand but this is been a long ongoing discussion and this is the decision that has been made and what has been submitted to the state over the last few years is exactly that project renovation additions for  van that is being looked up even as we speak let me address the shed first the ten thousand dollars figure came from our facilities people working with the board of library trustees all we want to do is get gas powered equipment out of the library building itself so we're looking for some kind of shed that's just a little bit removed from the building just for safety sake minus in this price if i come up with what for ten by twelve foot shed which has been as big as any room in your house for a couple piece of equipment but obviously it would be a maybe half the price and i'm talking about though i'd like to know who was creative enough to come up with ten thousand dollars reads hot all the time and we felt that this is a piece of equipment with the cargo that it carries that it was not worth the risk to drive children around in a piece of equipment that when that building could be basically almost rebuilt for full five thousand does not make it all and i think one of the problems with it we have with some of these items on this list is we don't have experts the looking and you know the equipment sells and you are not in a position to an expert that type of equipment any more than why bearings are in a position to be an expert what can what a shit is even what a shit is because s not with a good that's not what their expertise minister in the requests that was made by the library one of the issues that we also have to deal with in addition to the actual structure is the equipment needs to be power started though there may be a need to run  it mr cunningham kevin cunningham precinct four as you know mr moderate don't usually advocate for anything i just talk process but i just wanted to say on behalf of precinct four thank you for the consideration on the lexington street and sycamore street interchange the all  a further discussion being now on all those in favor of the motion under article ocean under article sixteen those in favor please say i was opposed now adopted unanimously now it's sixteen be moved that one million eighty six thousand three hundred fifty dollars be appropriated for the purchase of materials and installation of radio transmission equipment joint public safety communications center equipment and portable radios and to meet this appropriation the treasurer with the approval of the board of selectmen is here by authorized to borrow and issue bonds and to take any other action necessary and incidental they are to you have a vote of the u s capitol budget committee unanimously recommends favorable action and the board or mark wagner precinct five mr moderator similar to the question about reuse of equipment at the high school i heard a pretty big number regarding communications infrastructure going into the police station  yes by me friedman precinct rate i was wondering this joint public safety occasion center would that be necessary if we were joining with a regional nine one one center and where we stand with any p c in the regional nine one one i have been a little out of touch with what's been going on the last few months on that i am going to have to turn that over to the police chief process for nine one one we did the analysis it was view that it was not something that we needed to occur to participate in to give us affective and efficient service delivery and so it was a consortium of different cities that were trying to move forward i'm not sure they've made much progress at this point but at the end after we did it analysis it didn't appear that that was a effort that would yield us the results that we would want does that mean we will not participate even if they come up with something again where always the chief in the chief of police are always involved in those conversations of regionalization and again as the conversation moves forward for other opportunities will explore them and if were to with this equipment not be necessary i would say that the real issue is if we move down that path we'll have to look at that but again similar to the high school alarm system we're in the position where we do need to replace our communications equipment though to the extent it can be used in a new building it can be if in fact at some point in the future we did have a consolidated nine one with other communities we'd have to see how that could be folded and but we need the equipment now task force is going to continue look at that in town government look at some recommendations week just a way to innovate to form a working group of town administrator is to take his community to talk about these issues so it's a really difficult thing to talk about regionalisation but i think we need to commit ourselves to can keep an open mind terms that thank you very much that helps any further discussion saying no one will vote this is two thirds requirement so as is our new practice will do a lot tronic voting on the two third's show plan now me when we're ready a polling is open one for yes and two for no under the motion under sixteen b to see this money that one million fifty five thousand dollars be appropriated for the design and purchase of equipment the tiriel zx and installation of a replacement fire alarm system at belmont high school and to meet this appropriation the treasurer with the approval of the board of selectmen is here by authorized to borrow and issue bonds and to take any other action  incidental they are to do have a vote of the cap against a capital budget committee unanimously recommends favorable action and the board board of selectmen unanimously recommends favorable action and the warrant committee the warrant committee unanimously recommends favorable action and a discussion of the motion under article sixteen see polling is open fools that one million five hundred forty nine thousand dollars be appropriated for road paving projects that sum to be raised and expended under the direction of the warrant committee unanimously recommends favorable action discussion of the motion under sixteen d and i can't give you that number i could probably work that up but i couldn't give it to you off the top of my head so let's say that i'll i'll try to put something together and make it available entering the first question the were four roads that identified as the next sort of logical candidates for repair once i was aware that the governor had to release that second part of the chapter ninety funding and so it's actually my hope to include those in the contract for work to be done this year  you know we're dealing with a couple of challenges with our schedule this year because it's a blessing and a curse we've been blessed in the sense that national grid has really stepped up their efforts to do gas main work on the roads that we want to reconstruct the curse is that they just don't have the capacity to do the work as quickly as we would like and so it looks like the contract that we're going to put out this spring is going to have probably had three tiers of roads roads that would be available immediately ro that would be available sometime in late summer early fall and then a couple of roads that are probably going to need to be deferred until the spring but my intention is to use that money in the contract for this year which is technically still left by fifteen and then there was a list that you have for f y sixteen which is pick up the remaining funding that's being discussed this evening think you want a monthly alan from precinct heat mr moderator i have a question a process and the question is an important one to me because as a town meeting member you know by the time these articles i'm for consideration it always feels like they've been through so many filters and at this time how could that say the warrant in merely those through when they say that they want committee unanimously recommend favorable action does that mean that they have actually gone through these articles and look at this twenty four thousand mile call and said really so i just i would like to know kind of what is the level of scrutiny that's applied when  the requests first come to the capital budget committee as i outlined in the beginning we spend a lot of time with the department heads and we ask any of these same questions and over the years the department heads have come to know what kind of information we're looking for and they provided to us right away we actually have a template with those kinds of questions in them that we asked the department heads so that we start with a lot of good information then when it by the time it gets to the warrant committee i actually go to the warren committee meeting and present all of this information to them and they ask me a lot of very hard questions  because members of the warren committee have already been working with the various departments on their overall budgets so individuals on the warren committee are already very informed about their particular department and so they ask very good questions but they also ask questions in a context as they get it now in terms of everyone here is it a done deal by the time we get here we sure hope it is but if you've been to town meeting over the years you'll know that sometimes it's not that there's money shifted on the floor and we really hate that but it's a democracy and people have absolutely every right to stand up and do that makes us a little crazy so our process is such that it's all open our meetings are posted anyone is welcome to and listen and ask questions towards the end and our minutes we are really good about turning the minutes around pretty quickly because our clerk is great lease is wonderful he takes a look at them real quick we try to approve them as fast as we can and that's up on the town website so we've got a lot of information out there and people are more than welcome it common ask us those questions are common at least listen to what we're doing when we meet with the different department heads  answers your question mr baghdadi and then mr leaving sammy baghdadi chair of the board of selectmen mr allen and even before the list gets to the capital budget committee it's gone through the of selectmen and we have the opportunity of going through the list item by item we interview each department head and have the opportunity to examine them and cross examine them on the items on the list so as a first filter it's gone through the board of selectmen and then it goes to the cap budget committee and it's a less that's probably seven eight pages long and from where from there they would let down but the broad process as it relates to the budget and how the word committee interacts with that is that the overall budget is generally broken into departments so there's a general government department or there's the public services or public safety department and each of those departments have subcommittees with chairs and other members that are associated with each of those departments and so a number of these different projects have at least some degree of oversight as it relates to those subcommittee processes in addition there is a set a standalone capital budget committee and there is a member of the warren committee that is always a member of the capital budget committee and goes to all the meetings and participates actively but jenny fallon is sitting up front is a member of the word committee that is on that service this year and at bruges actually is a person has done that for many years in the past so there is an active process wrapped the entire process where i work from the members involved plus the subcommittees having some degree of oversight and then as enry said she comes with other members of the capital budget committee to present the overall capital budget and we then have a discussion as well so there's a series of different steps that have involvement from members or or and all of the work well the fact that there are occasional things that come to our attention a town meeting that are surprising raises the question but i have to say it's comforting to know that in fact there has been  quite diligent scrutiny of these items by the time they get to town nice appreciate your elucidating that process thank you yes ma'am on my right one on sex he's making a change yes money including the chapter ninety funds just be going to paving i'd like to understand that confirmation that that's what were you know voting on yes this is the road this is streets and roads this money here two hundred thousand that the override gave us for sidewalks is in motion a our long list our discretionary budget of all the two point five million dollars to go to painting only two hundred thousand which is a separate amount would be going to sidewalks is that correct correct partly for the reason you cited the board's lukman has had a policy for a number of years that because the roads money was so short it would not spend it on sidewalks but yes right we absolutely when we do roads will do candy have kept ramps in those kinds of things at intersections we're not going to leave those undone but by walks and curbing in front of  houses is now limited to two hundred thousand dollars this year and actually we allocated two hundred thousand in one hundred fourteen thousand in one time money towards sidewalks last year mr baghdadi certainly sammi baghdad chair of the board of selectmen kate were willing to revisit that policy i'm glad to hear that as a user multi modal user of the streets i just have one second question related which is just to get a little clarification on how the roads were chosen i did learn from the league of women voters night about the valuation some one hundred fifty roads and their repair which ones are major collectors minor collectors and so forth and so you know as i look down the list there are some roads that seem very minor in terms of use i would venture to say there's probably less cars on that road then it s rians on a more major road though i'd like to understand just a little bit more about why these may be getting it's you know when it wakes me up at three in the morning it all sounds so simple you know but when i have to explain it it really gets complicated so let me begin by saying that there was a period of time when the board of selectmen by policy  list we reached a point where we recognized that there were still some segments of major roads that needed to be repaired however there were neighborhood streets and the francis street neighborhood is it was the neighborhood that was always sort of in the front of my mind there were these neighborhood streets that were in such disrepair that it almost made sense to to make that leap into the neighborhoods at that point in time which is what we did we have an evaluation of roadways  and evaluation that is fairly complex it generates what is known as a pavement condition index number for each road it's a b ultimately the numbers are grading from zero to one hundred one hundred is  is you know obviously a road that is in very bad disrepair you know i have a fairly simple method of deciding year to year which roads will be reconstructed i look at the list and see which roads are in the worst condition i identify roads that are in bad condition that need the water main replaced public works department has a limited capacity to repair replace water mains every year so what i do is i can choose roads that need the water main repaired up until the public works capacity is exceeded or met and then whatever i have left in my capacity i just choose the next rows that are available that don't require a water main work it really is that simple  just to give you folks an idea i am i am right now a pro graham and roads that have a pavement condition index of i thirty's low to mid forty's those roads are very bad to speak to you your point about the use of some of the roads on the list you know there was a time where i took the neighborhood streets and i actually sub classified them into four different categories based on my best estimate of the average daily traffic use on those roads  to some degree i was trying to honor that but i have to be honest when when i think about a resident who lives on a road that sees the only a fairly limited amount of traffic versus a resident who lives on a road that has a little bit more traffic splitting hairs like that i was not comfortable with at the end of the day i really felt like if you're in a neighborhood street if the focus of the program is neighborhood streets i really shouldn't be so particular about a road that sees two hundred cars vs a road that sees six hundred cars i really brave question his brief i would ask that you consider traffic studies before and after you pave these roads i understand the ones that are getting paid if the speeds are increasing and causing concerns for people walking in the neigh it's clancy director of community development is a standing policy for community development along with the traffic advisory committee to work with the belmont police department to do speed studies on roads that have been reconstructed  when their neighbors complain about speeding the traffic division will take a first pass at putting out there the chariot there are there there are the trailer that has the speed speed limit reader on it to try to get at the problem that way if that doesn't work they will do a formal speed study and determine whether or not a formal enforcement is required so we are aware of at least the perception that speeding increases on a newly paved road and we do have mitigation that we follow through the  anywhere a few years back we allocated money or both repaving and sidewalk and curbing on cross street that was around the time the economy tanks and money for the sidewalks and curbing on a portion of cross street was then pulled and used to do paving and never we kind of never got back there so now what happens is basically half of prostrate down  around broad street new sidewalks and curbing and then as a result of the center reconstruction the top part across street by the intersection with channing is going to also have new curbing and sidewalks and then there's going to be a big section in the middle where only my house is located where there are even sidewalks and big gullies by the side of the road long and short is that work ever going to get done that's money that the town meeting allocated for that ok the poll is open you choose to support the motion to terminate debate oh yes if not  fifteen before we have our nine o'clock break article fifteen miss malini and rima hony town meeting member at large chairman of the capital budget committee moved that the town be authorized to construct reconstruct resurface or repay air all or portions of the area's town ways and to authorize the expenditure of eight hundred one thousand three hundred ninety eight dollars as may be received from the commonwealth of massachusetts to the massachusetts department of transportation for the fiscal year commencing july one two thousand and fifteen and expended under the provisions of chapter ninety of the massachusetts general laws  discussion on article fifteen that the warrant committee that it does and has done over the past year and then tonight we saw the work at the capitol budget committee as done we are very fortunate to have audi of individuals on those committees but in the kinds of hours that they put in and it's tens hundreds of hours through the year and it's often invisible to all of us in the community even a town meeting members but obviously it is a huge huge contribution to this town and the quality of work they do is superb and we owe them a great th with that let's take a five minute break