Public
Meeting
Meeting Room A
Town Hall, 260 Commercial
Street
Time: 4:30 pm
Members
Present: Kerry Adams, Alice
Brock, Gerard Irmer, and
Philip Scholl
Members
Absent: Heather Bruce and Mel Cote (excused absence)
Advisory
Staff: Doug
Taylor (Rex McKinsey excused for 3 mos.)
The meeting
was called to order at 4:32 p.m.
Motion: Kerry Adams Seconded: Philip
Scholl Voted 4-0-0.
There
were none.
Unfinished Business:
Harbor
Plan status. Jerry hasn’t gotten in
touch with Truman Henson yet.
Old Business:
· Review 2005 Amendments to
the Harbor Plan status
Nothing to review.
The Committee is waiting for the state to review.
· Washington Ave. Town
Landing
· Beach cleanup status
There
was a beach cleanup on April 6th with county jail people. They covered from Court Street to Johnson
Street. An area not cleaned was the
area right behind Seamen’s Bank. It is
impossible to access. The group is due
back on June 15th.
Kerry
Adams will deliver a thank you letter written by the Chair to the Coffee Pot
for their generous contributions. There
were only 5 prisoners and one deputy.
KA would like to see a beach clean-up on a week-end with school kids. Let’s pick a weekend in May; KA will
spearhead the plan (tides need to be researched, etc.) KA would like prizes for school kids who
participate in this endeavor. As an
aside it was mentioned that there is a tent city behind the Post Office.
Three
companies were contacted about the machinery they had for beach cleaning
operations.
A
few ideas were floated for funding possibilities, i.e. pursuing federal grants,
asking for help from the Visitors Service Bureau and the Chamber of
Commerce? Jerry would like a little bit
of monetary support from many local groups.
Alice
questioned whether the cleaning machine could get around the granite jetties
positioned along the harbor beaches.
Jerry
felt that maybe we could pursue grant funding when we decide on a piece of
equipment. Jerry would like to have
Michelle Jarieswicz look into this.
Doug will talk to Keith Bergman (as in “chain of command”) about this
and then take it up with Michelle.
Alice
feels if the beaches are clean, people will respect them. Last summer the DPW told us it would cost
$100,000 for a machine; the prices the Harbor Committee received are nowhere
near this figure.
KA
wondered if we are going to send these brochures to the DPW? Kerry continued by saying, “We’ve got all
kinds of issues that involve DPW and they never meet with us.” Doug Taylor will act the devil’s advocate
and see what he can do to arrange a meeting.
KA
proposed that we have a public hearing and invite the PBG, Chamber of Commerce
and other groups and committees and let people know what we are doing and
solicit ideas from them for clean-up.
We need a lot of communication with the different committees. Alice said to invite all people. Doug says this would end all arguments about
accretion. KA says “Beach Clean-up”
would be a great thing for the HC to hang their hats on.
Doug
said he would ask KAB to ask Michelle to research possible funding for beach
clean-up.
May
3rd is the next meeting and that is too short a notice for a major
meeting with all interested committees.
It was decided that at the May 17th meeting, the Harbor
Committee will invite PBG, VSB, ConCom,
BoS, Chamber of Commerce,
Economic Development Council, Historic District Committee, BoH, and the Natl
Seashore to attend and brainstorm with the Harbor Committee.
So
Doug will send invitations to all these committees. The May 17th Harbor Committee meeting will happen at
4:30 and then the public hearing will take place at 5:00 p.m.
New Business:
· Announcements
Good Templar Place.
KA met with BoS re: Good Templar Place. There were very good
reactions and this repair is moving forward.
Storm Remediation.
Alice
read in the paper about the storm remediation. Alice commented that the
Atlantic Avenue public landing was badly done by the company holding the
contract. The BoS weren’t about to make
waves about the butchered repair and said they have 17 more chances to do it
right. Now she sees the West Vine St
town landing being worked on. A backhoe
ran over these filters and crushed them.
The backhoe company will have to make good on it. Alice wants to know if the filters are now
working? Indefinite answer………..
Flow Chart.
Doug had a flow chart as a hand-out. Marty Huey is doing a list of all the
Chapter 91 licenses that have been issued.
Doug gave as an example: If the
applicant is replacing deck boards and they have a license – no problem BUT
expansion demands a review. The
applicant will have to come before the HC and make their presentation. The flow chart will be a valuable tool for
anyone contemplating a project of any kind on the waterfront.
361C Commercial Street
This
refers to the old Carrie Seamen property.
Jerry asked if they were supposed to make a presentation to us? The Carrie Seamen Bldg had been submitted to
the Planning Dept. but Planning doesn’t feel they have jurisdiction over the
harbor so it will be bounced back to us.
Jerry
has a few maps that he got from the Army Corps of Engineers. A lot of soundings were done before they put
in the Breakwater but they went no further.
He really wanted the 1836 map from Schofield but was told that an 1857
map is being used.
On
March 20th, Jerry sent a letter out requesting the map they use for
determining Chapter 91 licenses and their costs. Since the response from the state is either slow or non-existent,
Kerry volunteered to send a letter Sen. O’Leary and tell him about our
travails.
· Any other business that
shall properly come before the Committee
Sandpiper Beach House.
Doug
Taylor got a letter and called the Harbor Committee about the Sandpiper Beach
House having their gate locked. He
believes this is a public right-of-way.
Heather Bruce completed her statement to be included with
each application….. It read: “At this
time, the Provincetown Harbor Committee’s endorsement of said conditions is
based on our present obligation to follow the 1999 Harbor Plan. That plan, however, does not reflect the
original intention, nor the relevant regulations of “Amnesty”, as was clearly
defined in this Harbor Committee’s amended 2005 Harbor Plan, endorsed
overwhelmingly by Town Meeting vote.”
Jerry
wanted this statement to be approved by the Harbor Committee but Alice Brock
objected. To relax the issue, the
following motion was made:
Motion: Table this statement until the next meeting while Jerry sends an e-mail to Truman Henson to see if we can get him to come down and straighten this matter out.
Motion: Kerry Adams Seconded: Alice
Brock Voted 4-0-0.
Next Meeting:
The
next meeting will happen on May 3rd.
Adjournment
at 6:04 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Approved by ____________________________on ______________, 2006.