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NEWBURY CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Special Meeting Minutes Jan. 30, 2007
Present: William Weiler, Deane Geddes, Eric Unger, Frank Perrotta, Suzanne Levine, Katheryn Holmes, William Annable and others.
New Business:
Purpose of meeting:
“The Commission has been approached by a party which is trying to put together a deal to protect a large acreage in Newbury. Because the property is on the market, there is some urgency to determine if the Commission is in a position to participate. The chairman has deemed this meeting imperative to prevent the loss of an opportunity to protect certain natural resources.”
Motion: That the Commission enter nonpublic session pursuant to RSA 91—A:3, II(d) to consider the acquisition, sale or lease of real or personal property. Moved Levine, seconded Perrotta. Approved by roll call (two-thirds necessary for passage): Unger, yes; Weiler, yes; Perrotta, yes; Geddes, yes; Levine, yes. Annable and Holmes, as alternates, did not vote.
Nonpublic session followed.
The public session resumed and the first order of business was the following motion: That the minutes of the nonpublic session be withheld from public disclosure to avoid rendering the proposed action ineffective, and that the minutes be withheld until, in the opinion of a majority of members, the aforesaid circumstances no longer apply. Moved Levine, seconded Holmes. Approved by roll call vote: Holmes (voting in the absence of Unger), yes; Weiler, yes; Perrotta, yes; Geddes, yes; Levine, yes.
Town report, Selectmen. Weiler said his Conservation Commission report for the 2006 Town Report, in which he mentioned the Conservation Fund and the Town Forest initiative, resulted in a telephone call from Selectmen Chairman Jim Powell. Powell said he didn’t know about Selectman Richard Wright’s negotiations with the commission to oversee a proposed town forest. Weiler said he told Powell the commission understood the town forest, based upon a portion of the Fishersfield Park land, would be under the supervision of the commission. He told Powell the commission had offered to pay for a management plan of the Fishersfield forest. Powell asked Weiler to meet with the selectmen at their next meeting. Weiler said after discussion in which Powell disagreed with him that the Conservation Fund was
small, he decided to drop the sentence he had placed in the annual report referring to the Conservation Fund as “meager.” Weiler invited the commission to attend the selectmen’s meeting Monday Feb. 5 for further discussion of the issues.
Adjourned: Moved Holmes, seconded Geddes, 10:36 p.m.
Prepared by: Frank Perrotta
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