HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - OS - 09/13/2017 September 14, 2017
Open Space &Recreation Minutes
Meeting of September 13, 2017
Call to order at 6:37 PM.
Members present: Peter Pescatore, Lisey Good, Katie Holden, Richard Karoff, Tom Callahan,
and Jennifer McCarthy supporting
The chair introduced newly appointed members Tom Callahan, present and Eric
Eisenhauer, not present. Tom had not been sworn in and was not a voting member.
The committee reviewed the Water Land Acquisition Worksheet provided by former Water
Chair Glen Pratt and determined that all of the acquisitions listed occurred prior to the
previous 2010 OSRP.
The committee discussed the document provided by the Water Commission and added the
updates to the working plan document.
Peter discussed his meeting with the Sewer Commission where the group agreed to
provide the committee with an update of their section of the plan based on the previous
plan's narrative that Peter provided to them. Still scheduled for the last week in
September.
Peter discussed his meetings with the Planning Committee to encourage them to respond
to the questions developed from sections of the prior plan. (I heard from Clark today and
he seems to be proceeding).
Katie asked if we could add the proposed acquisition of a parcel of land on James Island to
the agenda and made a motion to that effect. Peter seconded and the committee voted 4-0
to add the James Island Proposal to the agenda for discussion.
Peter reviewed the proposal, that he had discussed at length at the CPC meeting on
9/13/17. There were several questions and we allowed responses from people in the
audience that were involved with the proposal. (John Stanmitz, owner, Tom Kililea,
citizen's donor group and James McCann, citizens donor group). Lisey Good requested that
we send a letter of support to the CPC then made a motion to do so, Katie seconded. The
vote was 4-0 to recommend acquiring the property to the CPC. Lisey will draft a letter
under Peter's cover for the committee and circulate it for edits. Peter will distribute the
final draft.
Review of Section 3.0 of the 2010 OSRP.
Section 3.1 needs a population number form the town for YE Fiscal 2017 - Peter will
handle with Town Clerk. (Done)
Section 3.3 Conservation Trust acquired acreage needs to be updated - Katie will provide
Land Trust Acreage acquired needs update -Tom will provide
Section 3.4 Population analysis - Peter will provide the Long Range Planning Groups
Population and other analysis to Beal &Thomas and discuss the population forecast
Section 3.6 we need to have a comprehensive recap of all public and private additions to
the recreation inventory over the period 2010 to 2017 and some narrative on future
development-Jenna will discuss with Ted.
Section 3.9.1 Little Harbor- Chris Senior will provide the specifics of the release of the 2nd
Judgement- Peter, ( called and discussed with Chris today).
Section 3.10.2 Water, need to talk to Lee and get a sense for the contracts between
Hingham/Scituate, North Cohasset direction and some narrative on that for the future/
capacity. - Peter
Polluted sites being monitored - Brian Joyce to update - Peter, (sent him the current list
and asked for update today).
3.10.1 EOEA update - Tom will research their website for updates.
CPC Update - Richard will go back to the CPC and get a narrative of all of the open pace and
recreation projects that have been funded by CPC from 2010 to 2017 and a narrative of
what comes ahead.
Richard had to leave causing the committee to loose its quorum and be unable to vote on
any other business.
The meeting ended at 8:32 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Peter Pescatore