Minutes Board of Water Commissioners
Town Hall Conference Room
April 19, 2010
Members in attendance: Emily Beebe—Co-Chair, Steve Gazzano—Co-Chair, Dan Wexman, Lori Vanderschmidt, Jean Schafer
Mark O’Neil was also in attendance to get up to speed on what is going on. He departed at 7:15 PM.
Emily took the chair and called the meeting to order at 6:30 PM.
Minutes of Previous Meetings
The minutes of March 15th were taken by Lori and chaired by Emily. Steve moved to accept the minutes of the March 15th meeting as read. Dan seconded. The motion carried unanimously by a vote of 5 – 0. Emily signed the minutes.
Jean made a motion to accept the Minutes of the March 22nd meeting as hand corrected for a typo. Steve seconded. The motion carried unanimously by a vote of 5 – 0.
Jean made a motion to accept the minutes of the March 29th meeting as read. Steve seconded. The motion carried unanimously by a vote of
5 – 0.
The minutes of the April 5th meeting chaired by Steve and Emily were previously accepted at the April 12th meeting. Both Emily and Steve signed the minutes.
Acceptance of the minutes of the meeting of April 12th was tabled until the next meeting.
Recommendation for Town Meeting
Jean made a motion to recommend Article 27 as it appears in the warrant. Steve seconded.
The motion carried unanimously by a vote of 5 – 0.
The explanation will be changed on town meeting floor. The article itself doesn’t specify a dollar amount.
Discussion ensued. The Board composed an email to be sent to the other boards who will be making recommendations at town meeting relative to the Board of Water Commissioners articles. The text of that email is made a part of these minutes.
Article 28 will be indefinitely postponed.
Article 27 Explanation: 2009 expansion of the Wellfleet Municipal Water System received federal grand funding for 75% of the project. This article would expand the scope of last year’s project with additional water mains that would allow additional connections for businesses and homes and provide planning funds for water management act requirements. Mains would be installed on Gristmill Way, Old Hay Road, Under Route 6, Old Truro Road, Money Hill Road,
Route 6, Briar Lane, Hiller Avenue, Summit Avenue, Freeman Avenue, and Chequessett Neck Road. Side streets include Rail Road Avenue, Baker Avenue, Cross Street, Whits Lane and Masonic Lane. In addition, we will be replacing the old plastic pipe in the old Cole’s Neck System with new ductile iron pipe.
This funding approval request is contingent upon receiving at lest 50% funding. Town Meeting approval is necessary in order to proceed with applying for additional grant funds. This article requires a debt exclusion by the voters at the annual Town Election.
Emily will send an email to the other groups to let them know that the route has changed.
Steve and Jean will go to the Finance Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Emily and Dan will go to the Planning Board meeting, which may run two nights. They have not yet made a recommendation on the Board of Water Commissioners articles.
Emily will get Mary Rogers to give color copies of the information for these boards.
The Board agreed on salient points for an email to be sent to boards and committees giving them an update on where the Board of Water Commissioners stands.
Subsequent to meeting with the Planning Board and based on their strong recommendations, although the scope of Board of Water Commissioners article has not changed, the explanation is significantly altered. The Board of Water Commissioners explanation of Article 27 has changed to the foregoing explanation.
Town Meeting Presentation
Dan presented verbage for a flyer to be handed out at various locations around town and at Town Meeting. EPG had previously agreed to produce the flyer and send it to the Board before Saturday. There was discussion and editing of the proposed verbage. Dan will make corrections as discussed, send it to Steve and he will send the package to EPG for printing. The fallback is to email it to Staples for printing.
Anomalies
Discussion of Anomalies was tabled until after Town Meeting.
Application Forms
Discussion and approval of application forms was tabled until next meeting. Mary Rogers is directed to put it on the agenda for the next meeting.
Unless directed otherwise, the title of the contractor providing administrative assistance to the Board shall be the Municipal Water System Coordinator.
Mary Fisk will call Rex to get the number for Ron Coontz at the USDA for language relative to the required information which must be obtained from subscribers for USDA funded projects.
Mary Fisk will send the Board’s Article 27 recommendation for Town Meeting to Rex and Paul Sieloff with a cc to Emily and Steve.
Emily move to adjourn. Dan Seconded.
The motion carried unanimously by a vote of 5 – 0.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
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Mary Fisk, Emily Beebe, Co-Chair
Municipal Water System Coordinator
The Water Commissioners approved these minutes at the meeting held 5/18/10.
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