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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Parc
Date: 2021-09-01
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: PARC Discussion
Attendees: Members - Present:
Sarah Brukilacchio (Remote)
Daniel Dewar
Jay Jackson
Chris Haley
Thomas O'connor
Karen Rose -Gillis
John Weston
Bernard Horn, Jr., Chair
Members - Not Present:
Elizabeth Whitelam
Others Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
'RECEIVED
TOWN CLERK
READING, MAS.
2021 SEP 28 AM 11: f B
Location:
Select Board Meeting Room
Session:
Open Session
Version:
Draft
Andrew MacNichol, Staff Planner; David Clark, Chief of Police; Christine
Amendola, Deputy Chief of Police, Dave Talbot
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Caitlin Saunders
Topics of Discussion:
Mr. Horn called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m.
The board started off by editing the minutes from the last meeting.
The board moved to approve the minutes from August 17th, 2021 as amended.
Chris Haley noted he spoke with counsel and he has a 300 ft radius from his
business to which he cannot vote on anything in that area.
The board then discussed the last parking survey that was taken. There is lots of
relevant information they want to pull out for the new survey.
Some members had some concerns about numbers and timing of the survey.
Dave Talbot was present at the meeting and noted his neighbor Mike Sakraida
would like some time in front of the board at a future meeting to present some of
his ideas.
Vanessa Alvarado asked what efforts are being taken to include the residents
because she hasn't received any notifications yet.
The board then started going thru the draft new survey Bernie created. They
reworded some questions, took out some irrelevant questions and debated having
two surveys; one for the inner core and one for the outer core. It was determined
that would be too difficult but the survey should ask where the person lives in town
so they can create data based off that information as well.
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The board discussed a question around paid parking and people's feelings on it.
Some members felt this question should not be on the survey at this time and
rather be discussed in a larger format such as a forum. There are many variables
around pay -to -park that one survey question couldn't answer. Other members felt
it was necessary to obtain input on this important item. It was noted this question
could be part of a second survey with specific recommendations.
The board further discussed getting the survey done in time to be distributed at the
fall street fair. They also discussed how long to leave the survey open for. Some
members felt a month would be good but some felt that would not give them
enough time to tally the data afterwards.
The board adjourned at 10:54 PM.
Mr. Dewer made a motion to adjourn at 9:45pm. Mr. Jackson seconded the
motion and it was approved 8-0-0.
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