Washington Planning Board

Master Plan Update Committee

MINUTES – Working Meeting

 

August 4, 2015

 

Committee members present: Jean Kluk, Lolly Gilbert, Bob Williams, Jim Crandall, Steve Terani and Nan Schwartz

Visitors: None

 

1.0    Kluk called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. in the Town Hall. 

2.0    Kluk handed out copies of the newest version of the draft Services and Facilities chapter (version 9), which we reviewed. We went through the 4 pages of the document that had changes made to them. Ed Thayer had proposed some new language in the Emergency Management, Public Works and Solid Waste sections. We also checked the document for typos and capitalization.

Page 3 – Thayer proposed new language and we are all OK with it. We found a few typos and added commas.

Page 4 – Thayer added the word ÒcurrentÓ, we decided we need to clarify with Ed about the road section where he says Òall remainingÓ, Schwartz will check with him tomorrow and we will correct according to what he says.

Page 5 – We will remove the ÒsÓ from the end of ÒtheseÓ remove ÒtheÓ before Lempster Mountain Road, and spell out seven and two in the bridge section.

Page 6 – Kluk shared ThayerÕs suggestions, all agreed with them.

In the Goals and Recommendation sections - On Goal A-4 we removed the word additional, and Goal C-4 was modified by Thayer and we agreed to the changes. Terani brought up the suggestion he had made previously for Goal B, a statement about the housing of the cruiser at the Old Highway Garage. Kluk explained that the committee felt that including it in the goals was too specific and we felt it was covered in the chapter discussion. On Goal D-4, Kluk said this is a suggestion by both Thayer and Crandall, we all agreed to it.

Terani asked about the shortening of the language he suggested for the Education section. Kluk said the group felt it was covered in the Historic chapter but we will add that the present school Òcurrently serves preschool through fifth grade.Ó

            Gilbert made a motion to accept the changes to the Facilities and Services chapter with final tweaks of typos and punctuation (and the clarification of the one statement about class VI roads we will get from Thayer, tomorrow). Schwartz seconded and all voted in favor.

            The committee felt no changes needed to be done for the Energy Chapter and we will present it to the Planning Board as-is tonight.

3.0    No new meeting date was set for now.

4.0    Meeting was adjourned at 6:23pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Nan Schwartz

Planning Board Secretary