Economic Development Commission
February 16, 2010 – 7:00 p.m.
Colchester Town Hall
127 Norwich Avenue
Agenda:
• Call to Order
• Approve last meeting minutes
• Citizen Comments
• Old Business
• Discuss/Review Economic Development Coordinator role interviews and budgetary data
• Share and review list of town web sites
• Kele and Steve to share CT’s ED Forum impressions from 1/25
• Sewer and Water update (Marc Decker will attend our March meeting):
i. From Marc Decker (2/2/10): The infrastructure project is critical to the development of the commercial properties on the southern side of the town. We issued the RFQ about a month ago and are opening the qualification submittals today at 2:00 and will begin reviewing them very soon.
ii. If the number of meetings and calls I’ve had from consultants is any indication, we should have a good number of respondents. I would expect it will take us much of this month to go through the packages and then schedule interviews. I expect we will have a consultant on board in late March (we need approval from DEP and BOS before negotiating a scope and fee and then need to go back to them for ultimate approval of a contract).
iii. (My attendance for the EDC) March meeting will be more timely because we will probably be in the scope definition stage. This project is unquestionably something that will take a considerable amount of teamwork to develop and pull off and the EDC will play a key role
• New Business
• Tom Marano from NU Economic Development Team to present slideshow
• Other
• Other Business for the EDC
• Adjourn
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