Public Meeting
Wednesday April 11, 2007

Judge Welsh Hearing Room

Time: 4:30 pm

 

Members Present:         Melinda Ancillo, Mel Cote, Marty Huey, and Gerard Irmer

 

Members Absent:                   Philip Scholl (excused) 

Keith Amato (unexcused)

 

Advisory Staff:               Rex McKinsey                

 

AGENDA

The meeting was called to order at 4:31 p.m.                                                

 

Minutes of 3-28-07

Motion:  Accept the minutes of the March 28, 2007 meeting as revised.

Motion: Jerry Irmer-Seconded-Marty Huey  Vote:  2-0-2 ab ( MA-MC)

 

Public Statements

As usual there were none.

 

Unfinished Business:

 

Old Business:

Review 2005 Amendments to the Harbor Plan status

There was no review.

 

New Business:

Spring beach cleanup

April 23rd has been tentatively scheduled as the day of the spring clean up.  Jerry said that in the meantime Steve Ellard from Brewster asked Jerry to call him back on the week of April 23rd and he will come down and do a demonstration of what his beach clean-up machine will do. 

 

He will eventually need a contract and specific times for scheduled clean-ups.  Rex said that before the guy even comes, Jerry should contact the ConCom (chair is Dieter Groll) and ask them for their input and probably attendance at the demonstration of the machine. 

 

Rex also suggested that if some of you form a 2-person subcommittee and attend the ConCom meetings, it would be valuable.  Rex said that he will tag the derelict beached boats some time in June. 

 

Next discussed were possible locations for the clean-up, i.e., from the kite shop west.  Then came the frequency which produced two suggestions:  3 times/year – spring, July 4th, and September.  The second suggestion which seemed to gain more favor was that once or twice a year should do it, once in the spring and once in the fall.

 

The parking of the cleaning machine would just require a call to the police from the Harbormaster to O.K. his parking adjacent to the MPL.  Another possible parking place might be the Freeman Street town landing. 

 

Jerry will call Dieter Groll to discuss plans for the beach cleaning demonstration.

 

Any other business that shall properly come before the Committee

Rex said they got the water testing quality grant and will set up a meeting sometime in early May.   He will try to get all the ducks in a row and if we can get Wellfleet and our dates to coincide, it should be a successful undertaking.  Then we have to have enough boats and groups to conduct the sampling.  Next we have to find money for the analysis; our immediate concern is bacteria.  We won't be able to determine whether the coliform is human or animal.  It will be interesting to see if they find a hot spot.  Barnstable will be testing the shore.  Rex said he is also getting grants for pollution control trailers - one is coming from DEP and we might store it on Jerome Smith Road.  If we have an oil spill, this thing has a compressor that can seal off a storm drain.  Rex also said he will not be here at the next meeting. 

 

Rex said he had recently gone to the Historic District Commission and Polly Burnell and John Dowd sketched out a drawing for the rental artisan shops that will be on the pier.  There will be only two or three for openers because  we don't want to build 10 and not have them occupied.  We’re currently trying to think of marine related items (small sales and low impact).  If the FAWC decided to use one of the sites - they can rotate artists in and out of there in order to have a lot of coverage.

 

Adjournment happened at 5:10 p.m. 

 

Next HC meeting: April 25 in Town Hall at 4:30 pm.

 

 Respectfully submitted,

Evelyn Gaudiano

Evelyn Rogers Gaudiano

 

Approved by__________________________________________________

                         Jerry Irmer, Chair                                      Date