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Lower Level Room -Town Hall
Meeting Minutes May 30, 2017
Call to order at 6:40 PM.
Attendees: Peter Pescatore, Lisey Good, Katie Holden, Dick Karoff
The press release did not get published in the last Mariner but there was a mention
of the survey in the Community News Section. Lisey reports that Mary Ford will run
the survey press piece in this week's Mariner. Distribution of the survey link to all
of the social media networks,that had been identified,was mostly completed the
prior week. The committee agreed that after the Mariner piece placement on 6/2
the survey should be closed on Monday 6/5/17.
Lisey moved to approve the minutes of the 5/23 meeting and Dick seconded. Voted
to approve 4-0.
The committee took up the review of the 2009 OSRP and Lisey recommended that
we consolidate the sections annotated as town input into lists for the various
committees or other resources that have expertise to contribute on the topics
identified. Lisey and Katie agreed that they would undertake creation of such lists
in their sub-committee.
We discussed the new open space being created by acquiring a small peninsula into
Straits Pond as a public space and identified the Straits Pond Water Shed
Association as a resource to consult on that.
The state of the town's Rain Gardens was discussed and we identified maintenance
for the rain gardens as an action item for the 2017 plan.
A discussion of the make up of the flotsam foam generated by the outflow of the
river into the harbor ensued and Jack Buckley's Maritime Group was thought to
have studied that.
The members agreed to schedule the next meeting for the week of 6/18/17.
We ended the plan discussion at section 4.7.6 at 7:45 PM to move upstairs for the
BOS Presentation by the committee. The BOS did not end their executive session
until 8:30 PM and the committee was able to present with the assistance of Tracey
O'Connor running visuals at 8:45 PM.
The BOS asked the committee to avail itself of work already done by the Long Range
Planning Group, Master Plan Group and other committees to assure consistency
with such work. We agreed to do so.
All four members in attendance contributed to the discussion and we completed the
presentation at 9:40.
Motion to adjourn made by Lisey, Dick seconded. Voted to approve 4-0.
Respectfully submitted June 20, 2017.
Peter Pescatore