Conservation Commission, May 30, 2018

The town published an agenda for this meeting. No minutes have been published; the recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

capitalgrantsplanning and zoningpublic commentrecreation

Present: Dave proc view (member); rich Brockman (member); Brandon Kippy (member); Bob (member taking minutes). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 2 procedural.

The money

1. ▶ 6:22State land grant (formerly self-help)

   Reimburses land acquisitions at a set percentage up to a maximum.

   as heard:$400,00064%

2. ▶ 6:44State park grant and Wallace Park upgrades

   Wallace Park upgrades could have been reimbursed had the plan been current.

   as heard:sixty-two thousand dollars64 percenta hundred thousand dollars

3. ▶ 14:01Lane property acquisition grant

   State grant offset much of the acquisition cost.

   as heard:nearly 270 thousand dollarsfour hundred thousand dollar

4. ▶ 33:432011 action plan costs

   Estimated costs were listed as zero for political reasons during the recession.

   as heard:zero zero zero

5. ▶ 34:24Agricultural preservation match reductions

   A right to farm bylaw and agricultural commission each reduce the town match.

   as heard:five percent

6. ▶ 1:41:47Hypothetical land grant example

   Town would front the cost and be reimbursed part, leaving taxpayer cost.

   as heard:a million dollars400,000$600,000

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 54:18First meeting set for Tuesday the 19th (June), then fourth Wednesdays through October, with a wrap-up around November 7.
• ▶ 44:21Members volunteered to lead text sections on community setting, environmental inventory, and inventory of lands; the chair takes the maps.
• ▶ 1:26:01The chair will rework the survey questions, drop the question on length of residence's order issues, add options, and use SurveyMonkey plus paper copies with tax bills.
• ▶ 1:45:44A member will walk the group through the ADA self-assessment at the next meeting.

Documents and exhibits

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

• recreation78 min · 72%
• planning and zoning60 min · 55%
• public comment40 min · 37%
• grants33 min · 31%
• facilities5 min · 5%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:00Call to order and purpose of updateinformational · 2:11 long
2. ▶ 2:11Presentation: open space plan, grants, 2011 plan, processinformational · 33:15 long · grants, recreation, planning and zoning
3. ▶ 35:47Approve May minutesvoted, count not audible · 0:47 long
4. ▶ 36:34Meeting calendar and section assignmentsdates set · 19:31 long · planning and zoning
5. ▶ 56:05Community survey questions and distributionchair to revise · 39:42 long · recreation, public comment
6. ▶ 1:35:47Mapping and habitat datainformational · 6:48 long · planning and zoning
7. ▶ 1:42:35Infrastructure assessment and ADA self-evaluationto continue next meeting · 5:06 long · recreation, facilities
8. ▶ 1:47:41Adjournmentvoted · 0:21 long

What the captions could not carry

• Vote counts for the minutes and adjournment
• Long garbled stretches during survey discussion
• Names of most speakers

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

• ▶ 6:22Open space grant reimbursementWhat state grants could reimburse land and park projects if the plan is current?

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