HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-07-24 Town Forest Committee Minutes 61
July 24 , 1972 7 :30 PM, Municipal Building , Reading,Masa.
The following members were present :
James S . Perry , Chairman
Benjamin E . Nichols , Secretary
Irving E. Dickey
The report of the meeting of July 17, 1972 was read
and approved .
It was moved and voted that the 'Town Forest Committee
will permit the Board of Public Torks to construct
a new well and appurtenances on land voted by town
meeting and deeded to the Town fx Town Forest purposes.
The Town Counsel will be asked to draw a formal release
to cover this situation. The Board of Public Yorks had
been given instructions by the State Department of
Health to obtain this release , even though the Town
Forest Committee operates under the General Daws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Chapter 45. Section 21,
which dees not give the Town Forest Committee control
over watersheds .
The problem of undesirable persons in the Town Forest
Who have been congregating at Point One , has been
discussed at various times with the Chief of Police ,
the Superintendent of the Board of Public Works , and
the Board of Selectmen. The reaction of these boards
has been that although it might be desirable to forcibly
remove these persons Immediately , this program is
unfortunagely hampered by our current laws, and the
present program of buying "peace" for the whole Town,
and buying "time" may be the beet method to be used,
at least until Labor Do 1972. The Selectmen state
that the Forest can be cleared of these undesirable.
persons at any time, if the conditions change and
warrant this serious move.
The meeting was held with Donald Connors , Town Counsel ,
regarding the contract with Arnold, Miner to thin the
red pine trees in the Town Forest . A copy of this
contract may be found in this log book and marked as
pages 62-A thgoagh 62-G.
The meeting wasadjonrned.
October 15, 1972
Mr. Arnold G. Miner carried out his contract by cutting
and removing red pine from the forest , and left the slash
in neat rows beside the rows which he cut. In order to
prevent a possible disease to the standing pine trees
which comes from the stumps remaining in the ground, it
was necessary to dust the stumps with borax. This work '..
was done by David Ferris and John Upton. Thpy dusted
a total of 2,626 stumps-.