Meeting of The Provincetown Harbor Committee Minutes

Wednesday, 5, January, 2005

The January 5, 2005 meeting of the Provincetown Harbor Committee was called to order by Chairman Gerard Irmer at 4:35 P.M.

In attendance were Committee Members Heather Bruce, Alice Brock, Kerry Adams, and Alternate Member, Melville Cote.

Ann Coleburn, due to an excused absence, was unable to attend.

Also attending as Advisors were: Pier Corporation Manager, Rex McKinsey, and Chief of Police Ted Meyer.

The first item discussed were the minutes of the December 15th 2004 meeting.

After having the minutes read, a brief discussion took place in which changes were made. A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes as amended. The motion was passed unanimously five to zero.

The next item on the agenda was the reading and discussion of the draft of the "New Harbor Plan" and how it pertained to Chapter 91. Among the topics discussed were: 1. Beach Accessibility and what residents and businesses would be able to do as well as not to do in order to allow it, 2. The Schofield line as it stands and whether it was done legally and the possibility of having it relocated, 3. keeping the Harbor Beaches clean who should be responsible for doing so with the incentive of possible credit towards any bills or fees they might incur.

Rex Mc Kinsey told The Committee that he would make a comparison between the Harbor Plan that is and the plan, which was currently being worked on.

Chief of Police Ted Meyer told the committee of a possibility of obtaining up to ($3,000,000) three million dollars through various grants that would be used to implement "The New Harbor Plan." Chief Meyer also commended the

D.P.W. (Department of Public Works) for their hard work with limited

resources describing to The Committee the "unbelievable condition of The Town's snowplows. After lengthy discussion of the draft of "The New Harbor Plan. The Committee Members then agreed to take the draft home in order to study and resume the discussion at the next meeting.

The next meeting of The Harbor Committee was then scheduled for Wednesday 12 January 2005, from 4 to 7 P.M. A motion was made to adjourn the meeting, which was quickly seconded. The motion was unanimously carried Five to zero at 6:15 P.M.