What was said

Stormwater Task Force, February 16, 2023

the recording · 0:22 long, about 2,782 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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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.

The short version

  1. ▶ 16:07The task force agreed to keep its March 16th meeting in place in case action is needed, with the chair to confirm the date by the eighth.
  2. ▶ 16:48CEI is to provide preliminary cost estimates for a demonstration BMP so the town representative can raise it with the select board.
  3. ▶ 14:03The demonstration BMP, required under the MS4 permit, is expected to be modest to build, with design the significant cost; stormwater funds or a town meeting article were floated.
  4. ▶ 8:30A member found the stormwater project spreadsheet's line items did not sum to year-to-date expended; two lines, one for plunge pool cleaning and one for CEI, were missing from the printout.
  5. ▶ 11:16CEI began mapping pipes into GIS under the asset management grant, to be finished by the end of the calendar year.

Why it matters — our reading

  • A required stormwater demonstration project may need money, either from stormwater funds or from a town meeting article that residents would be asked to vote on.
  • The spreadsheet that tracks stormwater spending was missing two lines when printed, so its totals did not tie to year-to-date spending until those lines were found.

Watch next

  • March 16th task force meeting, to be confirmed by the chair by the eighth.
  • CEI's preliminary cost estimates for the demonstration BMP, and whether a town meeting article follows.

budgetcapitalgrantshigh schoolpublic safetyroads and dpwtown meetingwater sewer

Present: Richard Tremblay (member); Matt Proctor (member); John Beale (member); Amanda Reed (member); DPW director (presenter); Adam (presenter); Bill (presenter). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 2 procedural.

The money

  1. ▶ 6:04DPW equipment hourly cost and drainage work data

    DPW director added equipment hourly cost columns and January drainage work to the tracking spreadsheet; the contractor sheet had one update, a CEI bill.

  2. ▶ 8:30Stormwater management project spreadsheet

    A member found the line items did not sum to year-to-date expended; two lines were missing from the printout, one for Lakeview Landscaping plunge pool cleaning and one for CEI.

    as heard:123 00012 7267039fifteen hundred dollars3 900

  3. ▶ 11:16Asset management grant

    CEI kicked off mapping pipes into GIS, to be finished by the end of the calendar year.

  4. ▶ 14:03Demonstration BMP cost

    Construction cost is modest but design cost is expected to be the significant part; stormwater funds or a town meeting article were floated.

    as heard:eight thousand dollars

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 16:07Keep the March 16th meeting in place in case action is needed, with the chair to confirm by the eighth.
  • ▶ 16:48CEI to provide preliminary cost estimates for the demonstration BMP so the town representative can raise it with the select board.
  • ▶ 21:44A member will review the Central Mass stormwater Coalition website and report back on training resources.

Where the time went

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

The whole meeting, in order

  1. ▶ 0:00Groundwater and ice on roads (Lancaster, Leominster, Goodrich) and DPW responseinformational · 4:54 long · roads and dpw, water sewer
  2. ▶ 4:54Approval of January 19th minutesvoted · 1:10 long
  3. ▶ 6:04DPW data collection and spreadsheet reviewinformational · 5:11 long · roads and dpw, budget
  4. ▶ 11:16Asset management grant and demonstration BMPinformational · 4:09 long · grants, capital, water sewer
  5. ▶ 15:25Next meeting and funding path via select board and town meetingMarch 16th meeting set · 2:52 long · town meeting, capital
  6. ▶ 18:17Horticulture involvement, cloud storage, training resourcesinformational · 3:47 long · high school
  7. ▶ 22:04Adjournmentvoted · 0:36 long

What the captions could not carry

  • Whether the spreadsheet's expended total was ever reconciled; figures are garbled
  • Who exactly voted in roll calls beyond ayes heard

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