February 09, 2009
Meeting Minutes | 2009
Community Preservation Committee
G.A.R. Hall, 353 Country Way, Scituate, MA
PRESENT
Members:
Mr. Bulman, Ms. Ivas, Mr. Leavitt, Mr. Limbacher, Mr. McKain, Mr. Scott, Mr. Wood, and Mr. Snow (arrived late)
Others:
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CALL TO ORDER - 7:05 p.m.
I. AGENDA
MOTION by Mr. Scott, SECOND by Mr. Limbacher and UNANIMOUSLY VOTED 7-0 to accept the agenda as submitted.
II. GENERAL BUSINESS
1.
Pinebrook Invoice – Mr. Bulman doesn’t feel the committee should sign off on the extra $300 expenditure. At the very least the recreation commission should come in and ask if the CPC will be willing to pay the additional sum and give an explanation as to why there are added expenses. Ms. Ivas stated that the recreation commission wasn’t even aware of the additional invoice. There was discussion among the members and it was decided that the invoice would not be signed unless the recreation commission or the consultant came forward to explain the overage.
2.
Coalition Membership – The annual dues membership is due. MOTION by Mr. Leavitt to allocate $3000, from administrative funds, for coalition dues, SECOND by Mr. McKain and UNANIMOUSLY VOTED 7-0.
3.
Appraisal Proposal for Hennessey Property – Mr. Bulman informed the members that he had received and appraisal quote from Boggini Realty Advisors for $2000. MOTION by Mr. Leavitt to appropriate $2000, from administrative funds, for the Boggini Realty Advisors to do an appraisal for the Hennessey property, SECOND by Mr. Limbacher and UNANIMOUSLY VOTED 7-0
Mr. Snow arrived –
Due to conflicts with the Conservation Commissions’ meeting schedule and the Community Preservation Committees’ meeting schedule the next meeting of the Community Preservation Committee will be moved to March 16, 2009. It will also be the Public Meeting, which will be advertised and will be held at the GAR Hall. Meetings will then become monthly, the second Monday of the month.
4.
Update on Acceptance of Minutes – The minutes from September, October, and November have been accepted and are filed with the Town Clerk. Minutes from December 15, 2008 are transcribed and waiting for acceptance. Karen will go through the minutes provided my Ms. McDonough and work with the committee members to fill in any missing minutes from 2008, print and file them with the Town Clerk.
5.
Project Close Out Protocol – Once Town Meeting is over the members will spend May, June and July getting past project applicants to fill out a one page completion form.
6.
Review Project Summaries – Mr. Bulman asked the liaisons for each project being brought to Town Meeting to review the summaries and get back to him with any changes.
7.
Publication and format for public meeting in March – Mr. Bulman will send a letter to the editor along with the project summaries and he would like the summaries posted on the web site as well.
Mr. Snow asked if there was any resolution to engineering issues relating to the bike path proposed for Gannett Road. The CPC vote clearly states that no construction can begin until the entire path to Hatherly Road has been designed and permitted. Mr. Bulman will send an E-Mail to Ms. Lyndon asking her for an update. He’ll also let her know that it is the understanding and concern of the CPC that they may not be able to engineer and permit all the way to Hatherly Road and remind her of the vote.
Mr. Limbacher asked about approving the minutes of December 15, 2008 and Mr. Scott expressed his concern that the minutes didn’t convey (what he thinks he said) that he expressed the opinion that the estimate on the softball field was based on very preliminary information . Mr. Bulman recalls that the estimate was compared with numbers that the committee got from Cohasset. Mr. Scott said that the numbers that were developed were based on numbers provided by the Town Engineer, Mr. Montanari, when a budget was developed for Cushing School. Mr. Bulman did agree that there was discussion that the minutes didn’t really cover, as to whether or not there was a vernal pool and there wasn’t a lot of money in the proposed budget for replication. Mr. Scott respectfully asked Ms. Crowell to go back to the minutes and listen to that section. She agreed to do that.
MOTION by Mr. Bulman that the CPC require the Recreation Commission, as part of developing the girls softball field, get a wetlands delineation, that must be approved by the Conservation Commission, showing that the field can be built as presented to the CPC before the Recreation Commission proceed with any further design, or before any order of conditions is filed, or construction can begin, SECOND by Mr. Scott and UNANIMOUSLY VOTED 8-0.
ADJOURNMENT - 8:15p.m.
MOTION by Mr. Limbacher, SECOND by Mr. McKain and UNANIMOUSLY VOTED 8-0 to adjourn the meeting.
Respectfully submitted by Karen S. Crowell