July 7, 2003
Charlotte Town
Hall 7 p.m.
Dana Farley (Village Resident), Chair Charles Russell
(Selectboard) arrived 8 p.m.
Jesse
Bradley (Recreation Committee) Jim
Donovan (Planning Commission)
Al Moraska (Planning Commission) John Owen
(Affordable Housing Committee)
Bill Lockwood (Economic Development Committee)
Members absent:
Dee Pierce (Conservation Commission)
Moe
Harvey (Citizen at large)
Others
present:
Dan
Senecal-Albrecht, Selectmen’s Assistant Stephen
Brooks
The meeting convened at 7:10 PM.
Dana outlined her draft survey. Revisions were
suggested as follows:
-shrink it down to one-page with 4 quadrants of
text; introduction and locator map to go on one side, survey on the other
-Public use section: rephrase to “facilities for
active recreation” and “trails” in general rather than specific types of trails
-say “possible public uses,” “possible housing
uses”, etc.
-other editorial changes to encourage participation
in survey, for clarity, etc.
Motion made by John Owen, second by Jim Donovan to approve the survey as amended. No further discussion. The question was called and the motion approved 6-0.
Charles Russell arrived at 8:00 p.m.
Discussion then focused on how the booth would be
designed and what other mechanisms would be in place to encourage participation
by the public. Various assignments were made (see “Action Items” below). Other
points of agreement were that a raffle would be held, a person or persons with
clipboards would circulate amongst the crowd to get them to fill out surveys
and that maps and other visual aids would be put in the booth to spark people’s
interest.
Dana noted that Martha Perkins has agreed to write a
story for the Charlotte News on the Burns Property booth at the Town Party.
Dana thanked Dean Bloch for his help over the past year on this project. She
then thanked Dan Senecal-Albrecht for taking on the role of providing staff
support for the project.
Action items:
C
Charles
will take and have developed some photos of the property taken from various
locations.
C
John
Owen will bring his digital camera to the Town Party and take photos of the
public’s different attempts/proposals using the model table for what to do with
the property.
C
Dan
will obtain from Stephen Brooks the $100 gift certificate to the Dog Team
Tavern which he offered to provide as a raffle prize for the survey.
C
Dana
will make the changes to the survey and e-mail same to Jim who will reformat it
into the final form for the survey. Jim will also produce an orthophoto or topo
map for distribution along with the survey. Jim will give the final copy to Dan
who will have 200 double-sided copies of the survey produced.
C
Dan
will work with Gloria to produce a banner to go along the top of the booth.
C
Dan
will obtain Index Cards and Push Pins so that people can post their ideas on
the booth if they don’t want to take the time to fill out the survey.
C
Dan
will have raffle cards made for people to write their name, address and phone
number.
C
After
the town party, the Committee will then need to finalize its planning process
and formally present it to VLT and PTV for approval and then ask the same for
grant funds to implement the planning process.
The meeting adjourned at 8:25 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Dan Senecal-Albrecht