Minutes of meeting held January 10, 2008, 7:00 P.M. at Town Hall College Highway, Southwick, MA, with attendance as follows:
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Voting |
Present |
Absent |
Dick Grannells |
Chair |
Yes |
X |
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Ray Reardon |
Vice-Chair |
Yes |
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X |
Sue Hepburn |
Secretary |
Yes |
X |
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Jerry Crane |
Associate Member |
No |
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X |
Tom Fabian |
Member |
Yes |
X |
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Scott Graves, Sr. |
Member |
Yes |
X |
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Scott Graves, Jr. |
Associate Member |
No |
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X |
Steve Legault |
Associate Member |
No |
X |
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Bill Murty |
Associate Member |
No |
X |
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Chris Sears |
Member |
Yes |
X |
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Norm Stolzenberg |
Member |
Yes |
X |
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1. Tom made a motion to accept the minutes from the 11/08/07 meeting. Scotty seconded the motion and the motion carried 6:0 to accept the minutes as written. Sue made a motion to accept the minutes from the 12/27/07 meeting. Tom seconded the motion and the carried 6:0 to accept the minutes as written.
2. S-319 - Quick review of last meeting for those who were not here. Crestview has addressed the few minor punch list items and their part of the project has been deemed complete. The Town will be adding a catch basin and replacing the guardrail at the bottom of White Street. There is also another catch basin at the top of White Street, along with a few others in the S319 grant area that are planned to be replaced with deep sump structures. All of these will have to wait until the spring construction season.
3. 168 Project - Quick review of last meeting. MassHighway held a final inspection walkthrough and identified a few punch list items. All will be addressed by the contractor, MIG, in the spring, except for adding temporary center lines now.
4. Sewer Expansion - Bill spoke about Suffield's WPCA meeting that was held last night (Wed.). The Connecticut DEP charged the powers that be to get the ball rolling on addressing the effluent issues on the CT side of the lake. They are looking for grant money to get an engineering study done. The Town of Southwick's Sewer Implementation Committee and DPW have Phase II of its sewer expansion plan in the starting blocks. The draft contract with Tighe & Bond for the design and permitting work on the interceptor extension is being reviewed by Town Counsel.
5. Ramp Re-construction - Dick, Doug Cameron and Dennis Clark had a productive meeting and the plan is to be ready to go by ice out next year. The design will include adding a dock at the North Ramp so that boaters can tie up to, to use the toilets or go to their vehicle for up to ten minutes.
6. Volunteers are still needed on 1/26/08 to assist with parking for Penguin Plunge. Tom, Dick, & Sue plan to assist. There is always a large turnout for this event and the more help the better.
7. Public Parking Area Lease Legislation was signed by the governor, who charged the Attorney General with the task of determining the "fair" lease price. Jack Sheppard has been in contact with the A-G's office and is pressing for $1.00 per year, automatically renewable. Jack said that the FBA has the option of taking back the property and "giving" it to the Town/LMC to manage, just like the boat ramps.
8. FY09 Ramp Operating Budget - Dick handed out spreadsheets showing income and expenditures by each category, and it became very obvious that the LMC had trimmed as much as possible and more income was needed to offset expenses. It was agreed that charging on Monday did not offer sufficient income versus the increased expenses, so that was dropped. Increasing the launch fee to $6.00 or $7.00 was extensively discussed, and it was agreed that the increase of $1.00 to $6.00 would bring in $5K to $6K more revenue, depending on weather. One downside of the $6.00 fee is that lots of singles will be needed for change, and Tom expressed his concern about that. Norm made a motion to increase the ramp fee to $6.00. The motion carried 5:0 with 1 abstaining. Chris made a motion that
there be a $0.25 raise across the board for all Ramp Attendants. Norm seconded and the motion carried 4:0. Dick will send Karl an input regarding the proposed pay scale.
9. Annual Report - Tom made a motion to accept the annual report as written. Norm seconded and the motion carried 6:0.
10. Tom made a motion to adjourn. Sue seconded. All in favor!
11. Our next meeting will be held on January 24, 2008.
12. Our meeting was adjourned at 8:10PM.
Respectfully submitted,
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Susan Hepburn - Secretary
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