TOWN OF
Chairman
Mary-Jo Avellar convened the meeting at
Other
attendees:
Town Manager Sharon Lynn, Asst. Town Manager David Gardner
Cape
Cod National Seashore attendees: Superintendent George Price and Chief of Facilities for the Park Ben
Pierson,
Recorder:
The
following are meeting minutes, in brief.
Intersection
of Route 6 Herring Cove
Four-section
highway at the intersection will go back to a two-section roadway. Route 6 will ultimately be turned over to the
Town by 2010, will the Town be willing to make improvements to bike path
access. The dip in the road between the
two lanes should be corrected with this improvement. Traffic light was removed because it
frequently malfunctioned. The light has
been replaced with a stop sign.
Improvements at 90% design and will be looking at starting construction
in the fall. Preliminary work beginning
in mid September but full construction will not begin until after women’s week
so as to not impact the shoulder season crowds.
The
two-lane configuration at the intersection serves to traffic calm and well as
provide additional safety at the intersection.
No caution lights are currently being planning, but the Highway Safety
Review might make a recommendation for that.
The
intersection is not currently planned for a three way stop. The stop will be on
Walking
traffic will be further considered in the plan.
PP cautioned that the area is utilized as a drop off adding pedestrians
into the intersection. The potential to
move the abandoned lane out further to
Potential
discussion for bike path at the
Restriping
the parking lot and adding a bike land.
Bike
Trails
Potential
to explore the connection between the Rail Trail and the Provincetown Bike
Trail system.
Priority
1 improvements will be made first. It is
not anticipated that the funds will allow all repair to the entire system. The trail will be widened from 8 feet to 10
feet outside of the wetland areas.
Within the wetland areas, the trail will not be widened but will be
repaired. It is anticipated that the
Trail could not be widened within the wetland area and any serious improvements
might require the trail to be removed from the wetland area entirely. The steep hills within the trail will be
addressed.
The
park is conscious to maintain the character of the trail system.
Cell
tower proposal at the Wastewater Facility will be going forward to look at
providing service throughout the trail system.
The Town will seek the Parks support for that.
Bike
trail design is at approximately 50% design.
Project construction would also begin come fall.
Bath House has
some structural issues and needs to be replaced in the next few years.
Solar and Wind
Energy for Shower House, snack shop and fee booth. Exterior and interior work on the
building. Replaces fixtures with low
flow water fixtures and waterless urinals.
Improvements for more energy savings at snack shop.
Grant allowed a
study to considering a solar option, a wind option and both. The Park supports the both option.
The design is
complete and the funds are available.
Wind tower is
modest in size, similar to
2.3 million
dollars for the alternative transportation system to allow for the Flex to go
bio-diesel. The Seashore received 13% of
the federal funds last year in this category.
Alternative
Fuel adhoc committee throughout the cape meeting with towns and DPW’s to talk
about different options to converting the fleet to bio-diesel.
The seashore
already uses bio-diesel within its fleet.
The Seashore
fuel facility on
Discussions
between the town and park to co-locate the replacement pump facility. Mark Forrest, Congressmen’s Delahunt’s Office,
announced that planning funding was still available. Is there a consensus that a co-location would
be acceptable within the community?
Potential to
also locate the fleet facility in addition to the fuel pump facility. This conversation will need to continue.
Ethanol pumps
have been approved for the outer cape.
Park
service has not done any control procedures.
Are there any programs within the park service that could do control
procedures?
The
park does do education regarding ticks.
Airport
Lease. Park is having conversations with
the Airport Commission and TM.
Discussion will continue to come up with a long-term solution.
Monitoring
from Unmarked Cars
Concern
expressed by the BoS regarding the surveillance of citizens within the park in
the evening. The park claims they are
not filming from an unmarked cars. The
unmarked vehicles are not equipped with cameras. The rangers are federal law enforcement
officers with the power of arrest. They
are monitoring for illegal activity within the park. This is within the legitimate law enforcement
authority of the rangers within the park.
There are illegal activities occurring in the park. Drug use, sex in public, theft,
archaeological degradation are all issues within the park.
Concern
with undue car stops. The park maintains
that probably cause is necessary for any car stop. Ranger citations are adjudicated within the
court system and the park has few citations thrown-out.
No
open alcohol containers are allowed within the park without an alcohol permit
or at an approved concession. Perhaps
better signage would prevent further problems.
The park does not adequately publish the fact that alcohol is not
permitted.
Meeting
adjourned to Race Point at
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