Duxbury Bay Management Commission
Meeting Minutes – Thursday, January 26, 2006
A meeting of the Duxbury Bay Management Commission was held at the Duxbury Senior Center at 7 pm. In attendance:
Duxbury Bay Management Commission (DBMC): John Carnuccio, Chair, Shawn Dahlen, Ned Lawson, Kathy Ahern Gould, Don Gunster, Jon Nash, Secretary, Julie Waltz and Don Beers, ex Officio. Missing were Skip Bennett and Jack Kent. A quorum was reached.
Other Guests:
John Brawley
I. Meeting Venue
· Meeting venue conflict has been resolved with Housing Cmte. DBMC will continue to use the Philbrick Room until further notice.
II. Task Force 1 – Island Creek Herring Run
· 2/2 at 7:30 Fiscal Advisory/Finance Committee: To discuss the additional 35k requested from CPC funds for the Ladder Project.
· 2/6 at 8:00 Board of Selectmen: To discuss the additional 35k requested from CPC funds for the Ladder Project.
III. Task Force 2 – Shellfish
· Shawn Dahlen reported on the work John Brawley has done to plot the grant information on charts of Duxbury Bay. Raw data will be further manipulated into a large spreadsheet so that ultimately a database will be available for monitoring and updating relevant shellfish information.
IV.Task Force 3 - Moorings
· Don Beers will present the revised proposal to the BOS on Monday, 1/30.
· John Carnuccio brought up the issue of whether immediate family should be able to retain a mooring after the death of a mooring permit holder.
V. Conservation Commission Update
· Ned Lawson – ConCom is considering a change in policy re preventing construction in town “AO Zones” (tidal over-wash areas.) Ned suggested to the group that water-dependent uses might receive an exemption.
· This will be discussed at a special evening meeting on Tuesday, February 21, and they encourage groups and individuals to submit questions for this event.
· No new environmental proposals were received for this week’s meeting.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Jon Nash
Secretary
Thursday January 26, 2006
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