TOWN CENTER SEWER ACTION COMMITTEE
A Sub-Committee of The Harvard Board of Selectmen
Meeting Minutes Thursday September 12, 2008
Meeting called to order @ 8:30 AM at Town Hall meeting room
Attendees: Chris Ashley, Wade Holtzman, Joe Sudol, Carrie Fraser, Pat Jennings. Also present: Loren Johnson, Tim Clark, Paul Willard, Ron Ricci
Meeting Summary
Old business:
Meeting minutes of Sept 4 meeting: approval moved by Jennings, seconded by Ashley; Unanimous in favor.
Debrief on coffees for public discussion:
Both coffees had decent attendance (10-15 people)
Many but not all were town center residents
Support was expressed for doing something. Many believe a lot of marketing will be needed.
New inputs we should consider:
Stress on water supply from new sewer capability (Duane Barber, water commissioner)
Soliciting capital support from private entities
Still River history showed that opting out is a challenge and a couple of key leaders can strongly influence the outcome.
New Business:
Next meetings
To focus on quantity of work at hand, next four Friday mornings at 8:30AM in Hapgood room.
Proposal – contract with GPR to evaluate and provide reports on municipal buildings
Hildreth House,Town Hall,Old Library,Bromfield House,Town Hall/old Ambulance Building
To provide technically credible assessment of municipal building needs, consider small contract with GPR to evaluate and provide report on each municipal building including
1) Incorporate know septic conditions with TCSAG and municipal input
2) Review site conditions, size, soil conditions and other considerations in developing on site septic solutions .
3) Suitability of standard or IAS septic technology.
4) Estimate probability and expected cost of on site septic solution.
Fraser moved to scope the proposal for review, Sudol seconded, unanimous in favor. Sudol and Jennings volunteered to serve as research assistants to the GPR in gathering information.
TCSAG Work Timeline
We need to be ready to present recommendation to selectmen in mid-December. There is a lot of work to do before then and some dependencies.
Alternative technology discussion
Group re-iterated that understanding of alternative technology and the vendor mentioned by Loren Johnson in prior meetings would be very useful in terms of understand the big picture of options. Loren wondered whether the timing would work out and it was asserted that this is not relevant. Scoping an understanding of alternative technology as either a preliminary or future solution is very useful.
CPC funding request discussion
Chris said that these are due by end of month and asked if anyone believed there was any related request for our project. Group believed that there is not any relevant linkage to this area. No action required.
Actions:
Wade to send Carrie a list of the second coffee’s attendees.
Wade to approach Senator Kennedy’s office to see if there is any appropriate program funding for our project.
Wade to send Julie Doucet a link to the article about the coffees published in the Press for posting on the web site.
Carrie to create a draft timeline
Chris to establish a timeline date for Norfolk Ram work
The meeting was adjourned at 9:54 AM
Minutes recorded and submitted by Carrie Fraser - secretary, TCSAC
Accepted by the TCSAC September 19, 2008
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