Public Meeting
HARBOR COMMITTEE
Judge Welsh
Hearing Room
Time: 4:30 pm
Members
Present: Kerry Adams, Alice
Brock, Heather Bruce,
and Gerard Irmer.
Members
Absent: Ann Colbourn and Mel Cote (excused absences)
Advisory Staff: Rex
McKinsey
Motion: Approve the minutes of the September 7, 2005 meeting as amended.
Motion by Kerry Adams Seconded by Alice Brock Voted 4-0-0.
Motion: Approve the minutes of the October 12, 2005
meeting as amended.
Motion by Jerry Irmer Seconded by Alice Brock Voted 4-0-0.
Jerry
has some announcements:
The
informational meeting with the water groups and Brian Dudley of the DEP on
estuaries will take place next Wednesday, November 16th in the Auditorium.
The
Cape Cod National Seashore General Management Plan Implementation Advisory
Committee will hold a public hearing on THE NPS MANAGEMENT PLAN so that the
Town of Provincetown can make its feelings know to the Park Thursday, December
1, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. in the Town Hall.
An
Oct 12th letter re: unlicensed structures on and over filled and
flowed common-wealth tidelands– (specifically 27 Commercial St – Ptown.) was
discussed briefly.
Next,
it was decided to work on the budget after the DEP presentation next week
(11/16).
Kerry
Adams asked Rex why the broken up boats are being allowed on the beach. Rex said that they will be there until they
are dismantled. (Less chance of
pollution?) Big news: The bob cat
currently on the beach to help with the dead boat disposal - has a rake
attachment for clearing debris and this might be of value in future beach
clean-ups. What we have learned is that
because the resurrection of the boats took several weeks; there will be funds
available to help with the oil spill clean-up.
The
Pier hook-up to the sewer is about to happen.
So said Rex.
Rex
left at 5:15 p.m.
Old Business:
Heather Bruce handed out summaries of her
Chapter 91 studies. Again, the
secretary was not privy to the hand-outs, so some of this may be vague. The bullet point folder is something
everyone can take home but not mark up.
Heather went over some of the
material she is summarizing. Most
important brief is the one with the red tag……
going back – in some cases – to 2000.
The state changed the application fee – from $2 to $10. The name, Pelosi, was mentioned a whole
lot.
Schofield
line is challenged. Seems to be an
archival study of the Chapter 91 licensing?
Heather’s sub-group went through this piece by piece and basically she
felt she didn’t have to go through this – page by page – “since you can all
read.” She also handed out a draft
letter to Coastal Zone Management (CZM).
Heather
then read Harbor Committee meeting minutes from 1995. Dennis Ducsik was mentioned as the creator of appendix C which is
used for determining Chapter 91 assessments.
Heather is ready to fight!
Alice
admires Heather’s tenacity but do we need to question the DEP and the CZM? Alice feels that the tone is a very
adversarial approach. Only change would
be that we should give them the information we have. No, Heather doesn’t like this approach. Heather told Jerry to feel free to reword her draft letter. Jerry will work on it and said that we’ll
meet on this again before the letter goes in to the state.
Kerry
Adams made a motion to invite Truman Henson to one of our meetings. Ask him at that time about the questions you
have. The next meeting is November 30th. It was thought that Ben Lynch and Truman
Henson should be invited to attend.
(This was not an official motion since there was neither a second nor a
vote.)
Heather
would like a moratorium on processing any more amnesty licenses until this is
settled.
THE
NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON NOVEMBER 30TH AT 4:30 P.M.
Adjournment
came at 5:45 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Approved by ____________________________on ______________, 2005.