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Board - Committee - commission - council:
Trails committee 2111 OU -2 PM 5: 20
Date: 2015-10-08 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Lower Level Conference Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: General Business Session:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Tom Gardiner - Chair
Will Finch
Ed Crowley
Dave Williams
Jean Jacobs
John Parsons
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Kim Honetschlager - Town Representative
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: lean Jacobs
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was called to order at 7:04pm.
I. Minutes from the meeting on June 3, 2015 were reviewed and approved.
2. Approval of donation from Noah Hennings - unanimous vote to accept the monetary
donation from Noah Hennings. A thank you note was sent to him.
3. Inventory - available members (Tom and Ed) will meet at the Materra Cabin on
Tuesday, Oct. 13 to do an inventory of trails supplies.
4. Projects in Bare Meadow and Higgins
a. Bare Meadow: Projects #2 and #4 from the proposal to the Conservation
Commission can be done soon. Work day for Project #2 was set for
Saturday, Nov. 7. Meet at Materra Cabin at 9:00am. Tom will talk to Jeff at
DPW about the gravel pack for Project #4.
b. Higgins: Should rebuilding the bridge be a Boy Scout project? If Trails
Committee does it, we need help from Reading Ret and/or Conservation.
Need to get approval from Conservation.
5. Trail Maintenance
a. Replace trail 'you are here" maps that have been removed. Jean will print
maps for Town Forest, Kurchian Woods, and Bare Meadow. She will mark
them and bring them to Kim to be laminated. Jean will then put them up.
b. Ed and Jean have removed a number of trees from trails.
6. Chairperson - the committee voted to keep Tom Gardiner as chair of the committee.
7. Ipswich River Viewing Platform
a. Begin investigation. Dave will talk to Chuck Tirone to get started.
8. Trails Conference - the committee voted to use Trails funds to pay for participants
going to the Trails Conference on Nov. 14. (At this time, Will and Dave were signed
up.)
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The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:20pm
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