TOWN CENTER SEWER ACTION GROUP
A Sub-Committee of The Harvard Board of Selectmen
Meeting Minutes Friday October 3, 2008
Meeting called to order @ 8:30 AM at Town Hall meeting room
Attendees: Chris Ashley, Wade Holtzman, Pat Jennings, Joe Sudol, Carrie Fraser. Also present: Tim Clark
Meeting Summary
Old business:
Review of meeting minutes of Sept 26 meeting: to be sent out via email and moved for approval in the October 10 meeting
Future meetings: next and last morning meeting will be Oct 10 at 8:30am in the Hapgood room, future meetings to be scheduled starting the following Thursday evening October 16 at 7:30PM
Ongoing Deliverables
Municipal needs assessment/projection (Joe) – adding potential new uses to the municipal building assessments
GPR contract for evaluating municipal buildings:
We reviewed the proposal from GPR:
Feedback:
Task 1: General belief is this task area is not needed
1. We believe we have all the raw data needed for item 1.
2. Need clarification on what this item means.
3. Need clarification on what form is desired: would like them to review raw data and determine further need for compilation.
Task 3/building usage will be supplied by Tim and Carrie (see actions below)
Norfolk Ram contract status: Chris has not received a response on this.
TCSAG Work Timeline
Chris has reviewed the timeline, need to review as a group in next meeting. General feeling is we are on track.
New Business:
Review of modeling architecture
Chris reviewed a mapping he put together showing considerations in a model for the sewer proposal. We discussed the need to summarize this approach for the public’s information. We also discussed the need for taking a principle-based approach to any betterment, connection and consumption fees so people understand the principles behind the proposal for any of these components.
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Actions from this meeting:
¨ Pat to talk with Erin Sullivan regarding the benefits of publishing an article in the Press about history of septic proposals in town center and what’s new/different about this group’s charter or assumptions.
¨ Carrie to schedule four meetings in the evenings – Thursdays at 7:30 PM starting October 16th
¨ Chris to forward document regarding future use proposals for municipal buildings.
¨ Chris to question Cal on what “usable form” means in task 1/item 3 of his proposal
¨ Tim to pull together raw material to complete task 1/item 1 of GPR proposal by
¨ Carrie/Tim to pull together spreadsheet of future intended use and implied GPD needs for the municipal properties.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:20 AM
Minutes recorded and submitted by Carrie Fraser - secretary, TCSAG
Accepted by the TCSAG October 10, 2008
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