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Meeting Minutes of April 4, 2018
Call to order 6:37 PM.
Members present: Peter Pescatore, Usey Good,Tom Calahan, Eric Eisenhauer, Katie Holden.Administrative Support:
Jennifer McCarthy.
The chair reported from his meeting with the Town Manager earlier in the day that:
OSRC should create GIS layers for walking trails and bike paths in the town.
A person from the Recreation Committee will join OSRC by the next meeting and suggested candidates for at least 1
more member were discussed.
Earth pay will become a town supported event, (town depts., committees, and civic groups)through a joint effort to
raise awareness, develop activities, have promotional items and generally promote the environmental protection effort.
The Town Manager agreed to provide committee directed funds to attain OSRP Objectives in some format to be
determined.
Newly hired Heath Agent Pam Foley is onboard.
Newly hired Veterans Agent Phil Mahoney is onboard.
The town will close fiscal year 2018 with a positive free cash position.
The chair asked for a motion to approve the OSRC Minutes from 3/28/18. Eric moved and Tom 2"d. Approved 4-0-1
The chair reminded the committee that Section 9.0 of the 2009 OSRP, annotated with comments on accomplishments
for each action item would move to the appendix section of the 2018 OSRP.
The chair distributed exhibits for rewrite of section 6.2-Statement of Open Space & Recreation Coals from the survey,
8.2 Objectives and 2009 OSRP Actions accomplishments in Section 9.0 for discussion.
The committee reviewed several items from the 2009 Section 9.0-Actions that were still outstanding:
c. Shared road bikeways and sidewalks:were discussed at length and basic language was agreed on. Tom Calahan will
check with the town to fix the date that Forest Ave. sidewalks were completed.
c. Create walking trails on conserved property: language for the walking trail accomplishments was agreed on.
Still outstanding: CPC land acquisitions from 2009 to 2017 and Assessor report on Communication of tax benefits to
donating land. Tom will follow.
The chair began the discussion of the proposed changes to Section 6.2, noting that he had modeled the text along the
style of the Concord, MA OSRP. The committee agreed to the change after discussion.
Changes to Section 8.0 such as dates and minor text adjustments were agreed upon.
Section 8.2, proposed by the chair,was discussed and the committee agreed to change the language in objective 1
regarding the OSRC'S role in reviewing town land use decisions. Torn will write for the committee. The remaining
Objectives were agreed to.
Section 9.0 for the 2018 OSRP—7 Year Objectives and Actions
The committee began the process of determining specific action items to achieve the 4 broad goals identified in section
8.2.We started with the first one, Make protection of open space and the character of the town a priority, with the
intend on working through the objectives in sequence. The committee experienced a display problem with the 7 year
format that slowed the effort and caused us to exceed the posted end of meeting time. We did substantially complete
the first 3 Objectives but had to suspend the effort until the next meeting to finnish off this section.
Tom will organize the materials we did create in section 9.0 in a clean format for review at the next meeting.
The chair asked for a meeting in the following week, but could not raise a quorum from the members present. All
members present agreed to Wednesday April 18t6 for the committee's next meeting.
Tom made the motion to adjourn, 2"d by Lisey, approved 5-0 at 9:39 PM.
Respectfully submitted
Peter Pescatore