2018-09-18 Recreation Committee - Subcommittee Minutes

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Oy�N Of R�a' Town of Reading i Meeting Minutes _ Board - Committee - Commission - Council: Recreation Committee 2119 JAN 14 AM 7: 54 Date: 2018-09-18 Time: 7:00 PM Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Conference Room Address: 16 Lowell Street Session: Open Session Purpose: Birch Meadow Master Plan Version: Final Subcommittee Attendees: Members - Present: Michael Coltman, Rich Hand, John Parks Members - Not Present: Mary Ellen Killion, Dan Foley Others Present: Genevieve Fiorente , Recreation Administrator and liaison to subcommittee Chuck Tirone, Conservation Administrator Carl Saccone, conservation commission member Maureen Hurley, Ash Street Brian S. Kimerer, 66 John Carver Rd Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Genevieve Fiorente Topics of Discussion: Meeting opens at 7:35pm. Subcommittee discusses electing chair and vice-chair of Birch Meadow Master Plan Subcommittee. Members ask R. Hand if he would be willing to be the chair of the Birch Meadow Master Plan Subcommittee based on his knowledge from prior years. R. Hand says he would love to and subcommittee says they will bring forward recommendation at the Recreation Committee meeting. The subcommittee also discusses the recommendation of M. Killion as vlce-chair of the subcommittee. R. Hand asks if M. Killion knows about this recommendation. Members say yes. Subcommittee agrees to also make the recommendation of M. Killion as vice-chair of the Birch Meadow Master Plan Subcommittee to the Recreation Committee. The subcommittee takes the next several minutes going through the community survey for the Birch Meadow Master Plan which has been worked on by subcommittee members, M. Coltman and J. Parks. The subcommittee and Recreation Administrator are very happy with the survey and suggest very few additional changes. J. Parks and M. Coltman say they will adjust the survey according to suggestions and also show the survey to the Recreation Committee to gain feedback. C. Tirone, Conservation Administrator gives feedback on several areas of the Birch Meadow Project. He pulls up a mapgeo overview of the complex and lays out the conservation areas by Castine and the old Imagination Station Lot across from Coolidge Middle School. C. Tirone and the subcommittee discuss opportunity for walking trails next to the wetlands and discuss possible surfaces. C. Tirone emphasizes the importance of a permeable surface and Page 1 1