HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-06-19 Board of Selectmen Minutes Board of Selectmen Meeting
June 19, 2013
For ease of archiving, the order that items appear in these minutes reflects the order in
which the items appeared on the agenda for that meeting, and are not necessarily the
order in which any item was taken up by the Board.
The meeting convened at 7:00 p.m: in the Conference Room, 16 Lowell Street, Reading,
Massachusetts. Present were Chairman James Bonazoli, Vice Chairman John Arena,
Secretary Ben Tafoya, Selectmen Daniel Ensminger and Marsie West and Town
Manager Bob LeLacheur.
Reports and Comments
The Town Manager reviewed a map of the poll results for curb and sidewalk construction
in the Poet's corner area. After a discussion, the Selectmen agreed that there was not a
strong consensus to do that work, so the Town should proceed to finish the street paving
project as originally intended. They thanked the Town staff for being flexible and listening
to the neighborhood during this whole process.
Discuss Goals — The Town Manager handed out two revised draft sets of FY1.4 Goals,
based on the discussion from the previous night's meeting. The first set included all 'old'
Goals that he proposed to be deleted — shown-in cross-out formatting. It also showed all
'old' Goals he proposed to keep, and added in the 'new' Goals discussed the prior night.
The sections were re-arranged so that logical items were together. The second handout
contained only those proposed Goals that would be carried forward for FY14.
The Town Manager and Selectmen had a detailed discussion about each of the 30 Goals
that would go forward. These included six goals in Administration; two in Policy
Development; three in Services; three in Operations; six in Community Development; one
in Health and Safety; four in Infrastructure and five in Finance.
The only suggested change by the Board was to remove the Veteran's District from a
broad regionalization goal, and place it by itself. The Town Manager explained that
Melrose had requested a delay in implementing the District to include Reading because of
extra work required in adding Saugus to the Melrose-Wakefield District. Mr. Bonazoli
stated that as a stand-alone goal, solving the Veteran's issue was to allow for any flexible
solution that was agreeable to the state. The Town Manager reminded the Board that the
state complimented the efforts of and results from the work of Frank Driscoll, Reading's
current Veteran's Service Officer.
Approval of Minutes
A_ motion by Tafoya seconded by West to approve the minutes of May 7. 2013 as
amended was approved 4-0-1 (Arena abstaining).
At 9.35pm a motion to adjourn by Ensminaer seconded by West was approved by a
5-0-0 vote.
Res ully submitted,
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