cast of thousands we will be moving forward st as community announcements of bell my if you weren't here earlier belmont late invites you to celebrate the winter solstice thursday december th from three pm to seven pm at forty print street share the warmth and bring your donation of new and gently used blankets bedspreads comforters and quilts for those in need this winter brighten your day and stop by for a mug of hot chocolate warm apple cider in a special appearance by frosty the snowman light up the night receive free a good place to start is this postcard a very impressive picture of our police partners because this postcard for people who can't see it says did you know your police department offers restorative justice and this is really exciting because belmont is the newest community to join communities for restorative justice we have twenty four different police departments that are working with our nonprofit and we also work with the district attorney's office diversion programs in middlesex county and as well in suffolk county so the program partners with police to accept cases says they're prepared for a court and at that juncture where the police officers would file with court they actually refer the case to us and we prepare the parties the victims the offenders all the impacted parties to come together and have a circle conversation about the harm that was caused and the ripple effects of the actions and then what we need to do to make things right and hold people accountable and it's really a healing process for the victims their spirit the experience of going to court and for the responsible parties there is a will to step up and accept responsibility and be held accountable for their actions but without the stigma of a criminal record because when the case is closed successfully the parties do not need to proceed in court so in those cases charges are dropped correct carol so i went to the presentation think ensure they are thinking about what we sort of justice is enough and i'll be honest with you just listening to the piano i have all said this is the right course of action for this community someone makes a mistake and you know it could be a significant mistake and it's the only mistake they made or  rather than having a criminal record or going to jail this is a way to hold them accountable and some of the stories that i heard about where taken place and chief ryan talked about it was just incredible and i think you do an incredible work here and i fully endorse and support this this is the way that our community and i know that our police chief in our system chief supports us as well and you can see that all the communities have joined to say this is because in many respects it's i want to call it a penalty but it's holding someone accountable for a crime they may have committed say against me if they stole my car or broke into my home and the stories you told there were others were telling was that ultimately they feel more and more sort of seen from that process i mean it's a healing process as well that they felt that they were held accountable rather than sort of the going to court the found guilty of pay a fine or they do thirty days in jail and they never really take ownership of the crime that they've committed this is the way that they accept that and sort of hopefully work towards not doing that again i was absolutely blown away by the by the discussion that took place there and these are you know she find in others that talked about how they never thought that they would sort of accept this and now fully accepted in dorset and i think it's a great thing for our community to sort of move forward with you know it's an opportunity for people for  study but it's great because inside it also explains sort of we have a chart that shows the types of offenses that we covered over the last year i'll tell you almost almost sixty percent of those cases are felony charges so i know that w trained police officers i often have to convince them that this is not you know soft on crime it is definitely holding people accountable in a very real way when you get the victim an offender across the table from each other it's not mandatory no it's completely voluntary history of we've been there been in these cases since we started the program not since we started the program but we certainly there are ones in the past that i can think of that would have been you know primed for this type of intervention salton battery there's threat to commit  the added up seventy four percent are really kids ages nine to seventeen so it's kind of trying to intervene before they kind of get into the criminal justice system and it becomes harder and harder for them to get out right percent and you know you can find lots of numbers out there for the criminal justice system but they're all higher than that sometimes two and three times if you made a point somewhere that maybe she pointed doesn't let them off the hook they commit a crime they're held in fact in many cases on belmont cases ideally are belmont resident smalling tiering to do the work as well we have a very small staff but we operate with volunteers and so i gave you a flyer as well for our next volunteer training which is february th and th so of tree for war memorial center board helped do the work basketball courts few years ago then did the service at the new high school or at the what will be the new high school so those are some of the things i ran you know i bring that  because at the time when we were doing the surface at the high school many people wanted to name the court after paul lyons one of the most successful coaches that we had in the town and i just remember the conversation it came about at that time and how difficult is doing some form of naming it wasn't something i wanted to get involved in so we got the courts down there completed everything's fine mr lyons was very appreciative of people's wishes but it said to move on now i understand th s new rule relative to naming for the selectmen for town property looks cool properties they have the room there really it's good for clarity because so i was driving by knows the tree came down at the war memorial six months ago i spoke to all over the world he spent seventeen years out of the country five in combat zones including bosnia eighteen months in the iraqi teen months in afghanistan and a year back in iraq so he's committed a lot of time into the military so when i saw the he come down to just thought when i make a donation to the town nothing formal i mean he would be you know pretty much turned off if i mean any big thing about it but i'd love to be able to put donate in time and not recommended the copper beech tree which would be best suited for that accepting the gift of the tree which i think it's a no brainer and then the nd part of it is we have the new policy about naming things and i think this is our st opportunity to follow through with this we would actually have to go through a process to name it name the tree or name just process that the naming i think there you'd have to apply for that separately because these are two different things that donating the tree and then naming it or well i guess that just might clarify though does the naming policy apply even in cases where it would just be a descriptive plaque and it's not proper wellness coalition so when i started working for wayside about eighteen months ago there was a grant substance abuse prevention grant that impacted belmont as well as three nearby communities but we didn't really have belmont coming to the table so to speak so i because i had long roots in belmont and was a public health professional i got hired by wayside to start a coalition to represent belmont at the substance abuse prevention collaborative meetings and in the course of the last eighteen months as some people in the community know we applied for a drug free community grant last march and we were granted six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars which will be spent through a side in belmont to prevent substance use among youth so i just wanted to apprise the board of the grant and invite you to stay in touch with what we're doing as frequently as you can or i can certainly i know that i was on the e mail list and just see if i could answer any questions about the work that's happening in belmont about the grants or you know anything at all family because it's nice to hear i'm so i did have one donation and we're going to put that toward some sort of prevention work at the high school because the high school had a speaker series but that was recently not funded so we will be able to fill turn out in the fire station chief has done them and he has tied it into c p r training and what we're finding out is that if you tied in with c p r training which is required for many town employees you do get a good  is something you know you kind of learn as you go along so the next one we do we'll try to do with do it along with the board list of participants who want to thank all of them and also thank you for your leadership on this and what it is you know certainly you know unfortunately because  we are an open door coalition we'd love to see you we'd love to hear from you if there are any concerns in fact i just had a resident reach out to me because of the article that was on the front page of the globe today or thereabouts about the suicides in roxbury area and you know that's something that will you know is something that we will be talking of grants are for substance use prevention but we're talking about a myriad of health issues from stress to disordered eating to mental health spreading the word that the youth commission is accepting applications and i hope somebody from the wellness coalition applies but if not well definitely be in touch and work together i mean we've we're all we all care about the  of and what's been nice by product of the coalition is that we've brought so many people who care to the same table so it's great i mean i should note to the public that the applications for the new youth commission are open until december st if you're interested in serving you can apply t timeline we've been at this for a while the changes that were made to runway thirty three dollars departures happened in the summer of two thousand and thirteen ended up putting significantly more flights over the four square area of fresh pond over by the cemetery i think bill is here can attest to the increase but it's been something that's impacted not only belmont but a number of communities to the to the west of boston and it's part of a big f a a plan to modernize the air system so we basically shifted from radar based navigation to g p s navigation and as people experience ways and other things now these airplanes are flying very very precise routes and the good news is that that tends to be safer maybe a bit more efficient but the bad news is that planes that used to fly more randomly over more people now fly over the same folks repeatedly so again i've been representing the town for five and a half years now initially on the blocked two good news is early on the reps from arlington belmont came cambridge and watertown came together and realized that this wasn't going to succeed if it was a one town against another town type of issue and so we formed and this is really going to allow us i think to enter this next phase of we now have some options to consider and it's going to be challenging because now we're talking about taking flight paths that  that had previously gone over certain parts of communities and putting some of them back and some of these communities haven't had flight paths for five years so it's an interesting interesting challenge the art of study  one was sort of low hanging fruit or things that could be done without addressing equity issues equity being when you're moving airplanes from someone to someone and the one that  said that if you can actually slow the departures that you can decrease airframe speed and so that's still moving along still being looked at but really the significant benefits or the significant changes would be more in block t pictures of you know sort of the way things were before and the way they are now and one of the st things that the mit focused on was really looking at how airplane noise was assessed and up until now  lot of noise that tends to work very well when you're in a community that gets i mean we get departures probably somewhere between eighteen and twenty percent of the time this metric doesn't work so well and so they've spent a lot of time working on something called peak day so it's really looking at a bad day and how bad are things on a bad day how many flights are impacting and so this is an assess  so and again i'm going to kind of breeze through this if you guys have questions mit the it's the international center for air transportation i catch which is a very well regarded set of experts that work on both f a a sponsored and industry sponsored types of research and they've really gone to back to the drawing board and said what what can we do to try to mimic what was before which honestly for belmont wasn't a really big problem and we had never filed a noise complaint prior to two thousand and thirteen and so these four sort of notional concepts have been  evaluated eleven basically says that as an airplane departs on thirty three l when it reaches three thousand feet it can get cleared to its next destination the other one looks at the same concept except at four thousand feet controller based is really going back to kind of the the radar approach which is that the controllers sort of manage when and where airplanes fly and then there's this concept of virtue of divergent headings which would actually put a couple of  extra paths sort of departure trunk paths fifteen degrees to the left and to the right of the of the current path and they've done a sort of a cursory level analysis this is really technical stuff but  it's again using this peak day metric you know how many flights of of you can see that a couple of them are pretty interesting from you know again and shifting  and you know mit is really kind of looking for feedback to say well how are we going to deal with these challenging equity issues because we really are going to have to have a debate about which one of these options is most attractive either for a particular community or for the region in general and i could just have a theory based on what i'm looking at altitude based three thousand feet seems to be a terrific so is that correct i mean look at this correctly where you have you've gone from zero two hundred more flights today is that correct is it that i read this correctly yeah altitude base going to three thousand feet in this person that is you know those particular metrics are you know eleven way of looking at it i think that the overall the one thing that we've asked for and i guess i can kind of jump into sort of you know my assessment of the situation is these are really examples they're sort of almost academic examples of  be and one of the things that they have not done is taken a look at how these examples compared to what was before so they've looked at what is today and then how can we change it so it's all of these are you know basically today to the concept what we really want them to do is take a look at what was it like before and try to because ideally that's what we've been shooting for as we've been shooting for trying to mimic the distribution before they made this change and so that's been requested we we've been told that they're working on coming up with those with that analysis and what about that by the other communities in the other stakeholders involved also looking for that same objective or is it that at the cut the belmont perspective because we went from very little to some it's a great question tom and you know i think that some communities are now rethinking maybe what their position is because you know cambridge and somerville are probably the ones where there was the greatest every every census block in belmont had a negative impact in cambridge to eighty percent of the census blocks had a positive impact and twenty percent of the census blocks had a negative impact so that twenty percent of the people who are under that flight path would love to see more of cambridge have more exposure or share the you know share the burden but it is going to be a question i would say out of the you know the communities medford had the highest population and the greatest negative impact because the waypoint is now in medford so all of the flights go go to med it was just before they disperse presley's offices so they're aware of what's going on there was a briefing a week ago at the state house that was attended by both years and senator brown's burger and a number of other legislators and so our next legislators town officials you know both you know patrice and selectman but it's really going to be for officials to dive into what the details are and then i think you know i envision then a public meeting here in belmont again for residents to provide input for us to have a discussion about it and hopefully that there's some sort of a summit at least among the western communities to reach some probably not going to get it to the general membership until june so i would say six months and then it kicks off a process of the f a a evaluating this which is if you play out what are we talking like a long time well we've been at it for five years and and we're dealing with a federal bureaucracy i think they are motivated because honestly compared to any of the other initiatives elsewhere in the country everybody's looking at us and this particular study other than phoenix will which sued early and was able to get their flight paths reversed this is the  the kind of the lead trying to figure out is there more equitable we were heard early on more concentrated around the airport i mean some of these airports are way out of it's they basically are concentrating arrival and departure pass everywhere and  the other thing that i mentioned because i think it's worth noting is that it's not just these concentrated flight pass i mean we are experiencing a boom in the economy in you know we can tell by traffic in belmont well there's a lot more airplanes flying has been a twenty nine percent increase over the last decade in a capacity a little bit in some point you are feeling well this is what this is what this chart will show you is what they've been doing is filling in some of the hours so if you show up to logan at five o'clock in the morning it's a full operation whereas you know in the so midnight to one am you can see the increase one to two am you can see the increase but  and so they actually did have a overnight had to have what's called a head to head where they fly airplanes and land them on thirty three dollars and then take off on fifteen which if you've got five flights during an hour you can do if you got thirty you can't so so now you know people are getting woken up in the morning you know with a five thirty am departure or or you know there's been a huge increase volume so i guess it's a lot of people here in the audience seem interested in the subject if anyone wants to make any public comment during this period step up to the microphone identify yourself and one of you have to go in and complicated in some ways you know would you just take a lot of scatter and you say no we're going to stick it right down this lane and so the notions of trying to recreate scatter dispersion as well as altitude which is another discussion want that one that you saw the four thousand that said we're going to start the spurs dispersion at four thousand and you can see because it's a very small scale there but it really dumped everything on arlington in a very terrible way and so that are involved in this said no that's it that should be on the table that's like that's the classic in all this seven on somebody else we don't want that so the idea of all when we make the shift some people who were blessed in graced in two thousand and fourteen went from sort of like you know annoying here in their noise to to virtually zero east cambridge cambridge and now the notion that they make up some of that back is sort of a discussion point and it makes you scratch your head and say what that was kind of naturally luckily equitable back then how do we recreate that technically with the new technology with you know rather than scatter so it's sort of a simple goal but you're dealing with the f a a so nothing simple but  if you could just roll back the clock using our nabs making a precise repeatable efficient and just create more strings on the harp that's one of the catchphrases here now and again with this that's the goal i've never heard the phrase i like the pool i just want to say that we put information on boston west st guys which is the citizens group and if you're interested you should join the group it's a google group post a lot of information that there is a facebook who what can this board do to support continue to support those efforts and who makes the decision and some of the things you talked about terms of this persian taking off and going i mean is there is there anything that creates a situation where it's more of a benefit for all of the communities that if he has to make a decision so i think that they're going to continue to look at whether there are mean the reality is that right now the newer airplanes are significantly quieter and i know that people are like well that's a you know it's a copout to say that well just wait for the newer airplanes but the reality is a for the reality is for every a three hundred and twenty you know ten year old a three hundred and twenty they get swapped  and twenty neo the noise goes down by fifty percent and the airlines are very motivated because they are making profits to replace their airplanes boeing and airbus are you know like three or four years backlog and so eventually and you know unfortunately i can actually sit in my backyard and tell the difference between you know a seven hundred and fifty seven and a seven hundred and eighty seven so i think you are going to eventually see a fleet mix of quieter airplanes i think that to your st question i think that every community needs to be encouraged to have a dialogue within their community but i think participating in the working group on a regional basis is going to allow us to least have a discussion about you know what are the impacts of these shifts and and you know how do we come up with a more equitable as bill says you know it should be easy to go back you know fair and is it fair to go back to what was or at least something that mimics you know the mimics what was but ultimately the massport c cc's thirty two communities what i would hope is that the communities impacted by thirty three l just like the communities impacted by runway twenty seven dollars or the impact or whatever runway they're impacted by would come to the table with some sort of a more cohesive consensus let us know what we can do mari and i saw on that on your progress chart there that one of them was to have a belmont community meeting we're happy to host and so we have two vacancies well because you're here to review appointments and discuss about this we have who on the energy committee now you're very kind to send over a roster because i kind of lost track of who was the last that anthony barnes brown and yourself are still on the energy committee is that reza five residents right the belmont light representative is travis frank which comes from l back there's a representative from town institution which is andrew healey from mclean hospital this is representative tom businesses which is done mercier and there's a representative from environmental group which is marty dittmer so that we've got two vacancies on the five town residents you're saying then yes that's what i'm saying so so someone to join you yvonne brown anthony barnes to the energy committee these vacancies came about because somebody resigned and one was somebody somebody resigned in then the energy  in two thousand and sixteen so there used to be a position dedicated to a town staff person and they can clearly we alternately came to that conclusion that when we need to work with a town staff person we asked the i'm josie or we put on the affordable housing trust that's right he also applied to be on the register of voters but there was not an opening but later tonight we'll find out there actually yes we may want to hold him because he was the only other applicant for the registrar of voters who we couldn't put among those that  the conservation commission oh i don't know about it yeah i know i'm just not i'm coming up later so in then at the end i got it you know what you end up with left when you go through that is about klaus becher aaron lynch adrian al and she's a physician with a master's in public health of i thought was the skills that you might actually want to not just energy and public health go hand in there and lynch she's really i don't know i don't know if you know it's a she but early age is extremely young and i would note that for what it's worth i don't see a whole lot of experience necessarily in town but i don't necessarily has a v a from columbia university that you know i'm not saying certainly qualified in harvard university extension school i mean you know you need a little bit more  right so we can consider these individuals that are active like loss and others for next year and i'm happy to have some of that to your point about diversity support ever in the energy committee and like some committee is i think it's a good entry into community week we are not as fast so the update is that we have collected two hundred and ninety three dollars bags of trash at the parks on the weekends and the holidays  exactly exactly illegal dumping will happen no matter what we do it's one of these because the question is are you getting more trash then you had when you saw when the barrels were gone overall i would definitely needed to be picked up if we did not pick it up it would have been a pile because we put the girls back because the barrels were gone and people are comparing left leader so we put the barrels back and right now we're hauling away more right but i think they get the question as we're trying so we have noticed that yes the trash is being used but there's i have pictures that will show me the barrels are being used and they are overflowing it's almost like ok people now know that we're collecting on weekends and we may be getting kitchen bags of trash that we normally probably would not got before are you seeing other than the other than the trash in the barrels are you seeing more trash not in the barrels yes they were yes it was before there were no barrels at all recommend though going through the cold in the cold winter months when we do have snow fall the parks will definitely be used last that we would go one day on the weekend saturday afternoon with the crew  let's try that for a while maybe a month and then i could talk to patrice about if we should continue with it or not but if everything is going according to plan then i would report back designer fees the amount of one hundred and thirty five thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars for fire department substation exterior repairs project oh that's just good you know who's this what so the chief is out there is he's going sorry no he's to the s g h contract having to do with the substation repair speeds of fire station i'm sorry the fire station yes the amendment will now give us a to and i believe yeah sounds about right yeah so this is the transportation advisory committee that is going to end up placing the traffic advisory committee to do not just cars but different charge yeah so it's a different sort of outlook on it so it's well i think it's important of some continuity to have maybe a couple people from the old committee on there because things like the take great traffic study you know that ongoing i think there's no point in doing this new committee no i agree and i and i also nd i think if we're going to bring people over from the old tack i think the chair and the vice chair might be the most right so you might be the best one th to be appointment to the tribulation budget committee for three year term i think i think again since they have the experience i think to carry it forward and i think and just he's got the experience as well and other things that he can do and i think that's a second that like to see the resume because i thought i thought we had in the memory job that maybe we didn't and i fact we don't see it as i see what her background is but i would like but i didn't see exactly the details i really thought about clifford to sue moss i mean i  committee and i know that i'm just thinking that you know and we don't need to have sort of diversity here but she's the mean women that's why and that's one of the reasons that she does bring a lot of years of experience and expertise and perhaps a different point of view that's always helpful as person i was trying to find the resume and you're not sure if i have that we have the summary of him but i mean for one year term i would i think it's worth putting him on we're trying to do that but it's really hard to do well let me see where you guys all live this is not a p c from my point of view the high speed traffic working group was more sort of oriented towards neighborhoods i think the transportation vij community needs to be a community of members that take into consideration no i served on it so it's been in existence for a number of years and i think it's done wonderful work and i think all the current members and in the past members that served and i think we should definitely send a letter to everybody you know thanking them for their you know i'm sure that we get we  issues in our community we need to we need to address it as a board resigned from the council on aging we have a thank you thank you we have a recommendation here we are thirty three applicants for two vacancies the chair has reached out and recommended to raise ha was the only person i believe who had applied last time we told him no because at the time the vacancy was a republican and we already had a democrat and we couldn't put another democrat on so now we put we put misters are on belmont housing trust for the spending and the c p a committee of spending of the c p a funding you may recall for them to go out there and find affordable housing opportunities and so this was to who was going to hold the money and how the money was going to get  looks like it covered all the things that we talked about last time we sent it back to council so the the main points are the work has to be they have to do the work within thirty months or the money goes back basically and every six months they provide the c p c with a written update as to how they're housing trust you know i won't say arbitrarily because i'm sure they've got good judgment but ultimately they're the ones that would determine how this is allocated without any specific guidelines as to how to create what it says is for the acquisition creation preservation support of community housing by the hard to believe the number of rides which will flee cars and also the things they cut the number of bikes down in town for the winter months because the demand goes down so you may notice fewer bikes it's not up permanent situation it's just a winter so check it and pick them up when it snows more than i think we want to you appreciate his interest and we appointed him but he hasn't participated so i think we have to move to sort of remove him from this committee and we're in our ability to do that so that i had to go through well i mean opening for alternate so we can i think that if anybody is interested in being an alternate member of the conservation commission in going the town's website and submit a resume and an application to happy to have you financial task force charge discussion and vote possible appointments you may gather the theme tonight of tonight's need anything committee members so this is the financial task force we discussed last time when we had the large meeting with the various other committees we had a draft charge time would agree that money means work for them as well great so we have an we have a few items left in for we get into the laundry list of licenses i don't know if anyone's here for any of these other items we have the challenge of again have a dish structure sure ok so with the vacancy of the assistant on ministry to position i didn't want to fill it right away because i wanted to kind of get some more time under my belt and kind of see what i needed what what would  be realistic so one of the things i would like to do in my department is we classify the budget in a list position and make that a budget director position there's a lot going on with the budget as well as now that the new high school has been voted in a lot of those financial responsibilities and me coming through my office so that is a huge increase in not only workload but also in accountability for the workload the other reason i was looking to be cast by this position is it really needs to be a department head level position i think when the martin heads dealing with the budget person in my office it needs to be on a level playing field it has to be equal the partner heads have to know that when the budget person is speaking it's speaking on behalf of the office it's not a subordinate position so those are the two reasons main reasons why i wanted to classify this position i spoke to glenn castor about it he's very excited to  a factor when looking at the cost patient in adding physicians so what i ask len to do is to take my position in assistant ten ministry position and we classification plans position and what that would impact the budget as you can see the we never fill that slot so this is basically taking that money and kind of reallocate yes so the other thing position that we had been working on is the assistant on mr so one of the things that i have i been tasked with with by the selectmen is to address some of the rock nation department concerns in the for the recreation strategic plan in that plan is a ration director given the state of the budget  it was really kind of hard to figure out how to fund that position when there's a lot of other new positions within the budget so what i decided to do was utilize the assistant administrator position have that position  twofold to address the wreck problems or the wreck issues to run a rack at probably eighty percent of the time eight thousand and ninety percent of the time but then also work with me as the assistant ministre to give them projects and  because we were looking to see what was going on in in the rec world and we were very impressed by him he seemed to know what he wanted to see the stuff we tried to entice him to come to belmont but what we found was you know wreck d director positions are really finite and very narrow in terms of what you're trying to find an applicant so i think this is a good a good fit for the town john met with the recreation director recreation recognition i think the conversation was very favorable everybody thinks that you know he he has the the right skills and the right personality to fit in well with the commission probably department and i think he'll be really good at helping us work through some of the issues we have to move forward as a group in june and i agree one hundred percent i think that at the time is now to  and john has a great reputation in you know the boston massachusetts rock world he has a lot of experience with enterprise funds which was one of the main reasons i went to arlington and that is  direction that we as a town i think would benefit with enterprise fund recreation department john's ambitious he's closer to my age so we're  i would add the other thing i'd like to add is this also takes a little bit off of the d p w director's plea he's been running back for a couple years now so it's yeah it's definitely an opportunity to have more focus on the recreation so john would tell us a little bit about yourself briefly short so since september start john marshall so since two thousand and sixteen i served as the recreation director for the town of arlington prior to that i worked for the town of natick i served as both program director and also director of the recreation division i served as the president of the massachusetts recreation and parks association the legislative chair  massachusetts recreation and parks association actually when the mass modernization bill was going through legislation i was able to present on behalf of massachusetts recreation departments throughout the state on some of the impacts of that bill i'm very passionate about municipal government i've completed the certificate program through the massachusetts municipal association and suffolk i'm finishing up my master's in public administration currently and i'm looking forward to the opportunity to work for the town of belmont and work with the residents well i think we're well we're happy to hear you come obviously patrice hires her own to the team yeah i mean it's getting half the battle is getting good people it's you know and it's really exciting to get this position filled and i think we can really do some good stuff untapped potential thank you or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non union personnel fire chief chief and even motion to go into executive session so move marco i know you can talk you know i just moved s competition at the same time yet so we've got to spread them around but at least i filled mine in so least you can work off of them thank you you going to the farmers market in the back in june when it opens again  goal continues to be hopefully to get an r f p out there get a partner selected get a contract negotiated such that we can bring something to town meeting for approval in may where  g a community comment opportunity in january so we need to sort of finalize the date and what that will be but we want to make sure that we're you can involve the community in the process so the one thing we're discussing that is still outstanding  this site so two options one being the incinerator site the other being the high school site we asked our consultants bruce haskell from langdon environmental to try to make a of the possibility of placing the rink on the incinerator site and as you saw if you take a look at the letter that he sent back he identified a number of what i'll call significant challenges with that location  predominantly around the permit ing both a timeline for the permitting from d e p t for the court the capping as well as the permitting for the post closure you would very likely delay the   one it will create challenges that may increase expense the other consideration is that we would very likely as a town have to put non trivial testament's into the geotechnical work in advance of an r f p process cost that we may sort of never never get back depending upon the partner unselected and then the final component that caused some level of hesitation was that while the agreement that we have the state transferred ownership to the that probably would be approved there's again some one certainty so we're working through all of this as we lay this out but i will say it's increasingly looking like the incinerator site could be challenging or post a number of two and we may run out of time so we're getting more information on all these uses we've got we've got so we've got some information on the brink we heard tonight in information on the solar we're going to be having that report coming in soon in the jester we don't really need to report on open space we know what that is and the bike and skate park i mean those are the ransom numbers and yeah so i'm generous th we'll take up all of that again with all of this new information right new thing we believe in the meantime and then we will see where we go i doubt highly we will vote on june january th although will probably put aware they acknowledge that there are some challenges with getting the two construction projects to happen simultaneously that said it is theoretically doable all right so that's where we stand on the brink  right i'm sorry to hear you know what's the difference here between these and does anything issue with these companies or pending department of the progress of these license so licenses to improve the renewal of the family business licenses pending department approvals street cover says twenty seven lexington street then there's a map here and went into the heart of lexington street and fair road across from the gulf station so this is like a gas station in waverly square  that we approve this bomb or car kill license at twenty seven locations and street you know pending the department's recommend approval of this license which means we hold the license unless all of them sign off on this week after to determine the best course of action to get this project completed without the use of town funds where the enormous amount of of town staff time and this is to utilize that money that was given to the town to put a solar array up and the idea take advantage of a state incentive which which makes it gives us the opportunity of building and even bigger a add another roll of panels which which is more revenue for the town was i held the budget kickoff for department heads on tuesday december th attached are instructions for after twenty of streamline the budget the budgets the departments will be submitting in january and hopes to make the operating budget more user friendly  o jamie assistant police chief has informed me that three of the town's new cruises will have idle rights installed in them i have attached the e mail this is something i have asked me about during the last budget process the idle rights are an energy well that i would like for the board to thought the same playground things to get a report out whether it's before or after the word to mean we don't really care but on our financial results and sort of we don't need a real detail dive at least get that information you can go through that you know we l helpful to be whole anything outside consultant or someone who has insulted you they help to run the numbers in the bottles i mean you know tom i mean yeah the members of that committee are going to be involved in other things as you are as well that having you know