TOWN OF
Chairman Cheryl Andrews convened the meeting at
Excused Absence: David Nicolau, Sarah Peake
Other attendees: Town Manager Keith Bergman
Recorder:
The following are meeting minutes, in brief.
Use of Library Gift Fund for Belfry Restoration Construction
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to award a construction contract to low bidder
Campbell Construction of Beverly, MA for the base bid of $123,000 for the
Library’s belfry restoration project; and,
further, to authorize execution of said contract by the Board upon receipt of
all required bonds and insurance; and further, to vote, as Commissioners
of the Gift Funds, to approve the use of $123,000 from the Library Building
Gift Fund to fund said contract.
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
1B AIRPORT COMMISSION
Engineering Contract – Snow Removal Equipment Purchase
MOTION: Move that the Board of Selectmen vote
to
execute a contract in the amount of $125,000 with Edwards and Kelcey, Inc,
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded
by: Richard Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
2. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
Pam Parmakian - Suggest that the Board of Selectmen
amend Article 5. Several questions on certain sections of Article 8 & 9
and who is policing these articles. How does this strengthen 4170. I urge the board to support Article 8 and not
support Article 9.
Molly Purdue – Relative to the discussion that took
place last week regarding about the transfer fee and raising the
exemption. Having taken a week to do
some research I think it makes quite a bit of sense. 70% of our seniors are homeowners and I think
that by raising this exemption to $540K you will be giving them the type of
support that I think they have asked for.
Barbara Rushmore – 1) I want to thank you for the service to
the town. It has been outstanding. 2) VSB
says they are not going to pay for the services to the town which VSB had paid
for – namely the summer 3rd Barrel pick-up and attendants who take
care of the bathroom .. saying that it
should that it should have been in the regular Department of Public Works budget. This is a problem. You are overseeing the VSB and I suggest that the VSB budget should be
capped. 3) Our payback on the sale of lottery tickets is miniscule from the
state. I am willing to work on this if
anyone is willing to work on this with me.
George Bryant - Complained about DPW Director being
reprimanded by State Ethics Commission.
3. SELECTMEN STATEMENTS
Michele Couture
I agree with Ms. Rushmore and will sit down
with our State Rep. Sarah Peake and find out what we can do and will get back
to Ms. Rushmore. Cheryl Andrews –
In fairness to Mr. Olson, he has raised
this issue almost every year since he has been on the board and I think our
State Senator Rob O’Leary capture what we’ve learned to experience in
Transfer Fee – We need the transfer fee and the 1.5% of
the resale price is the way to go.
Richard Olson
None
at this time.
Cheryl
Andrews
Issue of the Tourism Fund – I will take what I heard her say and send
it back to you folks. The conversation
about the money that is going in to the Tourism Fund which is 45% of the Room
Tax that is generated locally – it’s ironic because we hear some people say
that more money should come out that fund for municipal projects and then we
have a significant number of the business community saying just the
opposite. They think we don’t spend
enough. There was a tourism summit where
the Board of Selectmen and the Town got lambasted because the money is as small
as it is and that so many of our competing destinations spend so much more on
marketing. In the end it is up to the
town meeting voters. If you feel that
the money in the tourism fund should be spent differently, I’m guessing you
would have to put a warrant article on ahead of time to spend that money .. and
then obviously you would be amending their budget when their budget comes up.
If you just amended it now, money would sit there until next year. Unless you’ve already put an article on I
don’t see how you can direct them to spend it a different way but we can ask
Keith later or even the Moderator or Town Counsel what a ruling would be.
Bottom line is, over the years the amount of money that has come out of the
Tourism Fund Budget for town projects (3rd barrel pick-up, helping
out with some of the DPW cost, etc.,) has decreased and decreased to the point
where it has been running only about $30,000 and I certainly was persuaded, as
the rest of the Board was, a majority of the Board was, that it didn’t make an
awful lot of sense for us to be fighting and arguing with the Visitor Services
Board and the Tourism Department every year over the budget over such a small
amount of money. The message we were
kind of getting from the town was that the town need to pay for the DPW. The
town needs to pay for town services and that the Tourism Fund, which is only
the 45%, because guess what the general fund gets the other 55%. So if any of you think the Tourism Fund
should not get all 45% then you have to do it upstairs. I know it’s not coming from this Board of
Selectmen right now. Where it will go in
the future, I don’t know.
Thanks to Pam Parmakian for the homework you’ve done
on housing. Don’t know how I am going to
vote on Article 9. Issues you raised can happen on site. In the end the Zoning
Enforcement Officer is policing it.
Special Permits outline. Housing
Council will have oversight.
Exemption – was a new idea put on the table last
week. What I learned last week, which
was a lot, is that it has to go to the legislature then come back her to go for
ballot vote.
4. BOARD OF SELECTMEN APPOINTMENTS
MOTION: Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to reappoint Roslyn
Garfield of
Motion by: Richard Olson Seconded by: Michele Couture Yea
3 Nay 0
5A. REQUEST: ROBENA MALICOAT
ATM-15 Formalize Access to 320R
MOTION: Move that the Board of Selectmen vote to make the determination
that the portion of the abandoned railroad right-of-way which is the subject of
the easement proposed in Article 15 of the April 4, 2007 Annual Town Meeting, from Snail Road to and along the boundary of
320 Rear Bradford Street as shown on the
sketch plan labeled “distance from Snail Road =
approximately 3/10 of one mile,” is no longer required solely for park
and recreation land, with the condition that “the roadway (railroad right-0f-way)
shall not be paved, improved, macadamized, or widened and shall not be used and
functioned to serve only a single family at the property located at 320 Rear
Bradford Street; and further to recommend that Town Meeting approve said
article.
Motion
by: Cheryl Andrews Seconded by: Michele Couture Yea 3
Nay 0
5B TREASURER’S TRANSFER
MOTION: Move
that the Board of Selectmen vote, as
Commissioners of the Gift Funds, to approve the transfer of $174.00 from the
Motion
by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
5C1 MDPH HIV/AIDS GRANT – VIRTUAL GATEWAY
SERVICE
Appoint
Alternate Access Administrator
MOTION: Move
that the Board of Selectmen vote to appoint HIV/AIDS Grant Program
Manager Patrick Manning as the Alternate Access Administrator for the Virtual
Gateway Service Agreement for online billing with the Executive Office of
Health and Human Services.
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
5C2 MDPH
HIV/AIDS HOME HEALTH GRANT
Amendment
– Revised Scope of Services for 2007
MOTION: Move that the
Board of Selectmen vote to authorize the
execution of a contract amendment with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for a revised scope of services to include MDPH approved
work plan for 2007.
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
5D1 PARADE PERMIT REQUEST
Portuguese
Festival:
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve
the Parade Permit application submitted by Susan Avellar on behalf of The
Portuguese Festival Committee for the annual celebration of “The Portuguese
Procession” with this years theme: “Sharing of Portuguese Culture &
Heritage”, to be held on Saturday, June 23, 2007 from 3 p.m. to
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
5D2 PARADE PERMIT REQUEST
Blessing
of the Fleet,
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the Parade Permit
Application submitted by Susan Avellar on behalf of Blessing Of The Fleet,
Inc., for their annual celebration of “The Blessing of the Fleet” to be held on
Sunday, June 24, 2006 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
5E
REQUEST: AMBROSE HOMES, INC.
Temporary
Parking Spaces for china Realty Trust,
MOTION: Move that the Board of
Selectmen vote to
approve the request of Ambrose Homes, Inc. on behalf of China Realty Trust to
reserve two parking spaces in the Johnson Street parking lot for the period
April 1 to May 18, 2007, provided that the applicant shall pay the sum of
$1,536.00 for the temporary displacement of said parking spaces and further “No
parking on weekends from 7 PM Friday evening to Monday morning at 6 AM.”
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
6A
PHASE II SEWER PROJECT
Withdraw
Ballot Question,
MOTION: Move that the Board of Selectmen vote to indefinitely postpone Article 1 of the April 4,
2007 Special Town Meeting, Phase II Sewer Project; and
rescind its
vote on February 26, 2007 inserting a question on the May 1, 2007 Annual Town
Election ballot relative to this article.
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
7.
Adoption
of Board of Selectmen’s Recommendations on Articles
Article 5. Home
Rule Petition Provincetown Community Housing Bank – Real Estate Transfer Fee.
MOTION: Move that the
Board of Selectmen vote to approve Article 5 as printed in the warrant, with the following
amendment: by amending Section 11 (m) to
read as follows: “(-m-) The first amount equal to one hundred fifty percent of the median
price of a single family home sold in Barnstable County for the previous calendar
year of the sale price of any transfer or series of transfers of real property
interests in a single parcel, provided, however, that such an exemption shall
be applied only to the principal residence of a taxpayer as used by the
taxpayer for income tax purposes.”
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
MOTION: Move
that the Board of Selectmen vote to recommend ATM-3 Resolution: Provincetown
Schools Pre-K to Grade 12.
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
MOTION: Move
that the Board of Selectmen vote to recommend ATM-15 Formalize Access to the
Property Known as
Motion by: Cheryl Andrews Seconded by: Michele Couture Yea
3 Nay 0
8.
MINUTES OF BOARD OF SELECTMEN’S
MEETINGS
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the minutes of
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea 3
Nay 0
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the minutes of
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
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Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the minutes of
Motion by: Michele Couture Seconded by: Richard
Olson Yea
3 Nay 0
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the minutes of
Motion by: Cheryl Andrews Seconded by: Michele Couture Yea 3
Nay 0
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Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the minutes of
Motion by: Cheryl Andrews Seconded by: Michele Couture Yea
3 Nay 0
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen
vote to approve the minutes of
Motion by: Cheryl Andrews Seconded by: Michele Couture Yea
3 Nay 0
9. CLOSING STATEMENTS
Economic Development Applicants
MOTION:
Move that the Board of Selectmen vote
that the Economic Development Council permits approved by the Board of Selectmen on
Motion by: Cheryl Andrews Seconded by: Michele
Couture Yea 3
Nay 0
The Board went into executive session
at
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