Washington Planning Board

Working Meeting Minutes

May 23, 2016

0.0       Assembly: 9:00AM

            0.1       Members present: Crandall, Kluk, Schwartz

            0.2       Alternates present: Russell

0.3       Members and Alternates Absent: Dulac, Hatch, Williams

            0.4       Visitors: None

 

Crandall opened the meeting at 9:00AM.

 

1.0       Crandall opened the meeting and stated that we were here to plan an agenda for our June 1st meeting. Kluk had spent some time coming up with some items for the agenda. She thought that first Crandall should call for a vote to proceed with the project. We should meet regularly and get done what we can for this year and finish up in 2017 (ahead of the 2018 Town Meeting), if needed. We discussed what we need to do to get up to speed with all the board members. Schwartz thinks that closing the information gap is crucial. Crandall thinks the tours should be done first and we should share any information in hand. Kluk suggested information packets on the three buildings Schoolhouse, Town Hall and Safety building, using information from the town website. Russell said his main concern is access to the second floor of the Town Hall. He needs to know we see that as a primary goal and part of the borrowing needs for the project. Crandall said he doesnŐt know where it will go in the plan. Russell wants public debate about these things. We all agreed that we need to come up with things to run by the public. We looked at the information packets that Kluk suggested using, Crandall added information about the Town Hall to the packet.

            Kluk thought the next agenda item, if we vote to proceed should be to discuss and vote to conduct a brainstorming session to develop at most 6 possible multi-year conceptual building plans. If we vote to proceed set a date and location for the first brainstorming session.

            We decided the third agenda item would be to get the tours of the Town Hall, Schoolhouse (Police) and Fire/Rescue Station done. We though it might be possible to set it up and do it on June 1st after or during the meeting. Kluk thinks we should tour the Camp Morgan Lodge basement, too. There are storage areas and usable space there that should be assessed.

            Crandall hopes the board will come up with a multiyear conceptual plan with financials and we discussed financial possibilities that will need to be looked into further.

            Schwartz and Kluk made copies of informational packets to give to PB members prior to our meeting. Schwartz will make the agenda for our next meeting based on what we discussed this morning.

 

            Our next meeting is on June 1st,Wednesday at 9AM in the Town Hall.

2.0       Adjournment:                       Time: 10:15 am

             

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Nan Schwartz