A swift vote by the Select Board on five separate matters Monday night represented what officials referred to as acquisition of the “last 5%” of land needed for a project decades in the making. “This is a thrilling, exciting moment for Belmont,” Select Board member Matt Taylor told The Voice Tuesday morning. “It’s been decades coming. It’s taken countless people.” According to Taylor, school, state, and town land—including a donation of land from the Belmont Citizens Forum—account for 95% of the land needed for the development of Phase 1 of the community path. “For a lot of us, it’s hard