Hull Board of Selectmen
Minutes
February 28, 2006
The meeting of the Hull Board of Selectmen was called to order at 7:40 pm on Tuesday evening, February 28,2006 at the Hull Municipal Building, 253 Atlantic Avenue, Hull, Massachusetts
Present: Christopher Olivieri, Chairman; Joan Meschino, Vice Chairman; Ronald Davy, Clerk; John Reilly and John Silva, Members. Also present were: Christopher McCabe, Town Manager and James Lampke, Town Counsel.
7:30 pm – Judeth Van Hamm – Hull Climate Protection Resolution
Judeth Van Hamm introduced the students of a High School Social Studies Teacher Tim MacKenzie’s Street Law Class to read a Climate Protection Resolution, and seeking consideration, adoption and submission to the warrant of the Annual Town Meeting.
The Chairman thanked the students for their presentation.
7:35 pm Sustainable Transportation Committee Applicants: Marie LaLama, Kim Lalama & Anne Snyder. Appointment of Marie and Kim LaLama was postponed at their request.
Moved-Silva: to appoint Anne Snyder to the Sustainable Transportation Committee for a term ending June 30, 2006
Second-Davy
Vote: Unanimous in favor
7:45 pm Stephanie Peters - re: Applicant School Committee
8:00 pm Rhoda Kanet re: Applicant School Committee
The joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and School Committee assembled to appoint a new member to fill the position vacated by John Wholey who resigned. Present for the School Committee were: Catherine Bowes, James Canavan, Kristin Gould-Evans. and Kevin Richardson.
Both Boards interviewed Stephanie Peters and Rhoda Kanet. During Kanet’s interview she stated that some voting members on the School Committee had already made up their mind the night before. Following a discussion on the matter Kanet withdrew her application.
The Board recessed at 8:11 pm and returned to open session at 8:17 pm.
Kanet said on her return to the meeting that she stands by her withdrawal of her application.
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Moved-Canavan: To appoint Stephanie Peters to fill the un-expired term.
Second-Meschino
Vote: Unanimous by both Boards
Silva said that he supports Kanet and was somewhat taken aback by her withdrawal.
8:15 pm-Representative Bradley – re: Local Aid (Cancelled)
Minutes
Moved-Meschino: To approve the minutes of the emergency meeting as corrected
Second-Olivieri
Vote: 4 ayes; one abstention (Silva)
The board recessed at 8:26 pm and returned to open session at 8:40pm
8:30 pm – Paul Gabriel, Environmental Partners Group and
Carol Wasserman, ESS Group-re: LNG Facility.
Paul Gabriel, Consultant to the Board on the LNG Facility proposed for Outer Brewster Island introduced Carol Wasserman of the ESS Group for a presentation describing the proposal for the LNG Facility.
Wasserman said that there has been no detail provided by AES, Battery Rock, LLC, a subsidiary if AES Corporation of Arlington, VA on its proposal to site the facility on Outer Brewster Island.. Therefore, she said, the report is from information gathered from research. She described Outer Brewster as containing 20.3 acres and located approximately 2 nautical miles from the mainland.
The storage tank would be located on the north side of the island and it would be counter-sunk to limit the visual impact. The LNG tanker measure 940 x 165 x 130 would be visible for significant distances from any docking facility on the island..
She suggested that the most likely impacts on Hull would arise from the in transit exclusion zone maintained around any LNG vessel at sea, such as limits on water shuttle between Boston and Hull, limits on commercial and recreational fishing and boating and visual impacts as tankers arrive and leave. But specific impacts cannot be fully developed until details are available.
The necessary legislation requires a 2/3 vote, and as the island is within the jurisdiction of Hull one needs to assume that the Town will receive some acknowledgement. Wasserman told the board that there is very little information as to the
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configuration, frequency of trip, sea routes and the extent of security requirements. There are several regulatory agencies involved from both the Federal Government, and Commonwealth, and it is a long process.
Town Manager
Moved-Reilly: To approve the schedule presented for the special town Meeting within the Annual Town Meeting as presented.
Second-Meschino
Vote: Unanimous in favor
New Business
Moved-Reilly: To honor the late Sumner Goldberg, Hull's Veterans Agent for many years, a long-time resident of Hull, and decorated Veteran of World War ll, by dedicating the corner of Nantasket Avenue and C Street in his memory.
Second-Silva
Vote: Unanimous in favor
Moved-Reilly: To go into executive session relative to strategy in litigation
Second-Silva
Roll Call Vote: Aye, Meschino; aye, Davy; aye, Reilly; aye, Olivieri; aye, Silva
The Board moved into executive session at 9:50 pm and thereafter adjourned.
May 16, 2006
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