Provincetown Public Pier
Corporation (PPPC)
Meeting Room A
Meeting Minutes of
Present: Len Clingham (Chair), George Hitchcock (Vice Chair), Kerry Adams, Lee Ash, and Phil Tarvers
Other Attendees: John Davidson (Administrative Assistant)
Meeting called to order @
None
Representing the John R. Henrique, Inc:
Sandy Silva
Attorney Ed Patten
Ed Patten:
2 issues:
1) Amount of fee should be equitably charged
2) Authorization for a booth to be placed on the pier.
A sentiment of the PPPC board justified the concept of a fee float reduction. Granted the right to have a 100 ft envelope perpendicular to the pier. The east side of the pier, due to the floats, impedes the expansion of the 1E to utilize the 100 ft envelope. Larger float would allow 1E to attract more income to cover the float fee.
Float Fee should be 50% of other float owners
Credit going back for 2005 and 2006
Len Clingham: Understands the constraints put upon 1E. Open to discussion of offering some relief.
Patten:
As a float owner Sandy Silva should have the right to request to place a booth on the pier.
Lee Ash: Members of the board are somewhat in agreement in re-evaluating the fee and our biggest problem is what to do with the booth placement?
Len Clingham: We have discussed this as a board numerous times.
George Hitchcock: 1E not allowed to expand out to the 100 ft due to traffic and floats. We as owners of 10W still have the option to go out 100ft.
Sandy Silva: Under the impression that after the PPPC meeting in February, that she would be given a reduced rate. She had also agreed to sharing the shed.
George Hitchcock: Of the understanding that she would have the same right to have a booth and that she would share the cost of the building and that Rex changed it to a lease and that was un-equitable.
Phil Tarvers: The Bennets never did pay a reduced fee or any fee.
George Hitchcock: They did pay but put a stop payment on the check.
Lee Ash: Were all the floats given a right to expand?
George Hitchcock: All the West Floats could go out 100 ft but after the re-configuration the east side could not.
Lee Ash: If we adjusted the fee accordingly from here on out and give the right to have a booth does seem fair. Reluctant to go back in time. We are a new board that inherited many problems and does not want to give up anything.
Len Clingham: Providing 1E to purchase/pay ½ of cost of shed at 10W is the boards consensus. Stress that we have adopted a policy that the booths used be in conjuncture with the float space business.
Phil Tarvers: Overkill given it’s size for a shed. Don’t need a 10 by 10 shed to sell tickets.
Len Clingham: A moot point because it has been voted on and adopted by the board already that we can make ½ available to 1E.
Phil Tarvers: Not 100 % sure that we voted on the size of the booths.
Len Clingham, George Hitchcock & Lee Ash: Yes we did.
Phil Tarvers: Did not understand the size of the booth. Does it not make sense to make the booth at 10W and 1E to be of normal size like the other 6x10 booths?
Phil Tarvers: How is she going to claim ownership?
George Hitchcock: Are we going to require her to build a larger booth than the others?
A motion was made to adjust the license fee of Float Space 1E by 50 % of the other float spaces.
Motion: Lee Ash Second: Kerry Adams
Discussion
Vote: Y: 4 N: 1
Motion Passes
A motion was made to grant a ticket booth for Float Space 1E to be located on the west side of the pier in the other half of the trap shed at 10W which the owner of Float Space 1E would pay for half of it.
Motion: Lee Ash Second: Kerry Adams
Discussion
Motion withdrawn by Kerry Adams and the 2nd withdrawn by Lee Ash
Len Clingham: Continue to move this decision to 2 weeks to see if there is room for a different booth.
A motion was made to allow 1E to place it’s own booth consistent with our design on the west side near 10W if space is available.
Motion: Lee Ash Second: Kerry Adams
Discussion
The motion was amended to include: if space not available, to allow 1E to buy into the PPPC shed at 10W shed.
Vote: Y: 5 N: 0
A motion was made to accept the minutes of
Motion: Kerry Adams Second: George Hitchcock
Vote: Y: 5 N: 0
Phil Tarvers: Spoke to a teacher at the high school who was surprised that the teacher, Ms. Fox, had not gotten back to us.
John Davidson: VMES did call to say that they would be interested.
Len Clingham: It was brought up at a couple meetings ago about SCORE attending and presenting at a future PPPC meeting.
Lee Ash: Met with Chris McCarthy, Executive Director of PAAM, and was told that the proposed fee for the Trap Sheds was reasonable.
Kerry Adams: In situations that we just had is it our policy that we make a decision right then and there or was this an extenuating circumstance?
Len Clingham: Yes, this issue has been discussed prior and that this was not the norm.
Phil Tarvers: Agrees with what Kerry Adams is saying. That we tend to be more reactive than proactive.
A discussion occurred in regards to the restrooms.
A motion was made that we contact the superintendent of the
Motion: Kerry Adams Second: George Hitchcock
Vote: Y: 5 N: 0
Kerry Adams (directors statement cont.): Sign sub-committee update.
George Hitchcock:
Repair to the north gangway was accomplished by having Winkler Crane
removing it to the welder and then replacing it. Believes that it needs
larger rollers. A number on the
side of gangway has the manufacturer’s phone #.
Should look into putting weights on the north side. The concrete is so close on the handrails the
aluminum is being eating away on both sides.
AHM Ribas came in to day, on his vacation, to help re-install the
gangway. Rex was on vacation this week,
Luis is on vacation and John was to go to
Bobby Cabral came in to update the board on the outcome of the DEP and his Chapter 91 license.
Len Clingham: Met with new town manager and the BoS. Timing of workshop and planning should be sometime in the fall.
Kerry Adams: Brought up the issue of the real estate broker for Cabral’ pier and would like to have him come before the board to make a presentation.
Phil Tarvers: Will be having surgery on 5/6 and may not make the next meeting.
Renewals for moorings, slips and floats sent and returns being processed.
Discussion of staff responsibilities and pier maintenance
Add an agenda item to the next meeting to discuss Seaport Grant.
Send more trap shed letters to companies that will build a shed.
A motion to adjourn was made at
Motion: Kerry Adams Second: George Hitchcock
Vote: Y: 5 N: 0
Minutes Respectively
Submitted by
John Davidson
PPPC Administrative Assistant
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Len Clingham, Chair Date