HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989-04-04 Town Forest Committee Minutes 92
April 4, 1989 7 :30 P.M.
A formal posted meeting was held at the home of Chairman
George B. Perry, 230 Franklin St . , Reading, Maes.
The following members were present :
George B. Perry, Chairman
Irving E. Dickey, Vice Chairman
Benjamin E. Fiohole , Secretary '
The followipg visitor was present :
Edward D. Mclntire,Jr. Assistant Director
Dept , of Public Works
The minutes of the meeting of March 9, 1989 were read
and approved.
As reported in the minutes of the last meeting, Rivera
Development has made an offer of a gift of 32.9 acres,
more of lees , of land along the Ipswich River. The Town
Forest Committee wrote a letter to the Reading Board of
Selectmen on March 31, 1989 that stated :
"The Town Forest Committee respectfully requests that
if the Town Meeting votes to accept the parcel of
land being donated in Article 30, that consideration
be given to conferring the care and custody of this
parcel to the TownForeet Committee by reason of the
cdtreot relation to the present TownForeet lands, and
that any reasonable access would have to be over
present Town I+orest toads."
Our committee members met with the Rivers Development , and
agreed with them that it would be permissible for them to
include in their Phase V one ten (10) foot entrance , or
perhaps two ten (10) foot entrances,to the Town Forest .
Edward D. MoIntire ,Jr. explained the problem of the
preliminary work for exploratory wells to be done by the
Department of Public Works in the Town Forest . It was
agreed that the Committee would most with Mr. McIntire at the
new .potential well area Friday morning , April 7, 1989 at
7130 P.M. to be shown what the Dept. of Public Works would
like to do in the area.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 P.M.