Wellfleet Board of
Town Hall
Conference Room
Minutes
The Wellfleet Board of
Commissioners present:
Commissioners absent: none.
Other attendees of note: Dale Donovan, Selectman & Helen M.
Wilson, Selectwoman, both past
Adoption of Rules of Procedure: The new BWC reviewed and/or established that:
1)
BWC meeting will be held the 1st and 3rd Thursday
of every month, unless the BWC decides otherwise. The meetings will be held in the
2) Quorum needed to have a meeting is 3 BWC members.
3)
Town employee, Mary Rogers, will only be available to take minutes of BWC
meetings between
4)
Approved minutes & requests to post future meetings (48 hour notice
required) will go to Town Clerk’s office.
Approved minutes will be distributed to
Annual Organization:
Election of Officers:
Chairman:
Vice Chairman: Erik Mitchell, (5 - 0 in favor)
Secretary/Clerk:
Near Future Focus for BWC: Educational process to bring all members up to the same level of understanding. This would include (among others):
1) Review & discussion of materials provided by Tim Smith which was:
a. US Geological Study Scientific Investigation Report 2004-5014 (USGS SIR 2004-5014),
b.
c. Preliminary Water System Master Plan by Environmental Partners (EP)
d. MGL Chapter 41, Section 69B
e. Procedures & form to file minutes with Town Clerk and others.
f. Wellfleet Municipal Water System (WMWS) Rules and Regulations
g. Wellfleet Harbor Area Municipal Water system (WHAMWS) Rules and Regulations
h. Town
of
2) Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) offer to meet with the BWC to provide instruction and assistance.
3) Ben Gitlow’s offer, on behalf of the Water
Issues Advisory Committee (WIAC), to assist the new BWC in whatever way the
Board would like. Other members
of WIAC are Robert Hubby and Tom Flynn.
(The mission of WIAC is to protect groundwater quality by advising the
Board of Selectmen and/or
Next Meeting:
Agenda
items:
Definition
of: Scope and/or
Duties & Responsibilities: which includes a review of the legal opinion written by Attorney John Giorgio (of Kopelman & Paige, Wellfleet’s Town Council,) concerning the extent of the powers and duties of the newly appointed BWC considering Mass General Law (MGL) and Wellfleet’s Town Charter.
Explore possible ways to determine the need and demand for municipal water in Wellfleet. That will include a review of past efforts, such as questionnaires sent to property owners.
Respectfully Submitted,