December 18, 2007
Lucy B. Wallace
Robert E. Eubank
Timothy A. Clark
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by Chair, Lucy Wallace in the Town Hall meeting room.
HOUSING AUTHORITY – SENIOR HOUSING – Scott Hayward and Mark Cooper of the Housing Authority were in attendance to discuss senior housing in the town center specifically the Mass Ave site. Engineering and marketing studies were completed over the past 8 months and determined the Mass Ave site would be difficult to develop. Concerns were the location being steep and the high level of traffic. Additionally, they found the Mass Ave site was not economically viable. The studies did suggest a definite need for senior housing in Harvard. The Housing Authority has suggested expanding the search to look at Hildreth House site. This site has 6 acres and possible adjacent parcels. The Housing Authority has discussed this idea with the Council on Aging and they support the proposal. The Housing Authority would like to discuss proposal
further with the CPC and Housing Trust regarding funding. The Board of Selectman asked further questions and was in general support of the idea.
Management Audit Report – Keith Cheveralls of Quarry Lane asked the Board if there was any action taken on the Management Audit Report. At this time there has been no action taken.
ARMY CORPORAL JOHN MCCLURE HOMECOMING – Corporal McClure served as a medic in Iraq for two tours. Bob Eubank commented on the success of the ceremony held on Saturday December 15th in the Town Hall meeting room. The celebration included the Harvard Band, Blue Star Mothers and many members of the community.
HARVARD SNOWMOBILE CLUB - Tim Clark thanked the Snowmobile Club for their efforts in helping the Park and Recreation Commission in developing the new trail from Depot Road to Blanchard Road. He also thanked the club for clearing trails for opening and the construction of a temporary bridge. The Commission is also in hopes of qualifying for additional grant money from the state to continue improvements.
DPW – Lucy Wallace thanked the DPW for their efforts during the first substantial snow storms of the season.
MINUTES – On a Wallace/Clark motion, the Board voted unanimously to accept the minutes of 12/4, as amended.
FISCAL YEAR 2009 – SELECTMEN BUDGETS – DPW Director Rich Nota, Police Chief Ed Denmark, Fire Chief Peter Bob Mignard, Council on Aging Director Ginger Quarles and Finance Director Lorraine Leonard were in attendance to discuss their respective operating budgets and their funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year. The Board asked questions of the department heads with regard to the various budgets.
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ANNUAL LICENSE RENEWALS – Tim Bragan presented the Board with the annual license renewals for 2008. On a Eubank/Wallace motion, the Board voted unanimously to approve and sign the annual licenses, as set forth in Attachment A.
DEVENS DISPOSITION CRITERIA – On a Eubank/Clark motion, the Board voted unanimously to approve and accept the Devens disposition criteria and to authorize Lucy Wallace to participate in the JBOS working committee and to report back to the Board any substantial alterations.
LONG RANGE PLANNING – MISSION STATEMENT – Lucy Wallace proposed to the Board a hold on the formation of a Long Range Planning Committee, considering the demands on a 3 member Board during budget time. The Board agreed to allow existing committees to continue their efforts and to have the Board resume in April once the Board is back to 5 members.
CRITERIA – DETERMINATION OF LOCAL INITIATIVE PROJECTS (LIP – 40B) – On a Wallace/Eubank motion, the Board voted unanimously to accept the LIP criteria as set forth in Attachment B.
TOWN CENTER SEPTIC TASK FORCE – On a Eubank/Clark motion the Board voted unanimously to create the Town Center Septic Task Force. The task force will work on implementing a plan for town sewer and options for funding the project. They appointed Town Administrator Tim Bragan, Selectman Tim Clark, DPW Director Rich Nota, and three members of the public: Chris Ashley, Ron Ricci and Leo Blair to the task force.
LIAISON ASSIGNMENTS – Lucy Wallace informed the Board they needed to reassign the liaison assignments that were given to Dean and Marinelli due to their resignations. See Attachment C for updated assignments.
TOWN ADMINISTRATOR REPORT - Tim Bragan presented a letter from Harvard Conservation Commission showing the unanimously voted allocation of $2,505.00 from account #83000-25900, Wetland Bylaw Fee, to be used to supplement the Land Use Administrator/Conservation Agent hourly rate from December 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. On a Clark/Wallace motion, the Board voted unanimously to approve the request.
Tim Bragan along with the Board presented Valeska Ross with her 10 year service award and they also bid her farewell and good luck in her new position.
Tim Bragan along with the Board also welcomed Julie Doucet in her new role as Executive Assistant.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 p.m.
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