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Meeting Minutes
Board - Committee - Commission - Council: Trails Committee
Date:
December 7, 2022 Time:
7:00pm
Building:
Location:
Mattera Cabin
Address:
Session:
Open
Purpose:
Version:
Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Kathy Kelly chair
Will Finch
Ray Vaillancourt
Tim Kirwan Associate
Thomas Gardiner associate
David Williams
Ben Ream
Members - Not Present:
John Kastrinos associate
Others Present:
None
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Vaillancourt
The meeting was held at Mattera Cabin and brought to order at 6:34 pm
Topics of Discussion:
1.) Approve minutes
Unanimous
2.) Conservation Map Updates
Will Finch discussed proposed additions to Conservation Map
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3.) Picnic Table Location
Discussion of moving the picnic table from Mallet to the Beaver Dam in the Town Forest
Some people opposed this move.
For now we will have the DPW move it to the community garden and let them use it.
Unanimously approved
4.) Priority List/Project Updates
Kathy will add to the priority list the issue of Flooding in our storage area in Mattera Cabin
Kathy and John did a site visit to Bare Meadow with the Boy Scout who proposes an Eagle
Project there
The Trails Committee moved to prioritize the bridge near Haverhill st. Will will draw up
plans. We will try in the spring if it's not too wet.
Our next priority is finishing Pinevale.
Also, the new Town Forest Trail needs to be built.
These three projects will be the priorities for spring and summer. Approved unanimously.
We moved to table the Lenetta Lane trail until there is more information provided, including
a survey.
We have to replace the glass in the Bare Meadow kiosk. Will will install it.
Kathy will hang the kiosk keys in the cabin.
We will install a kiosk at Lynn Village Way in the spring. Possibly April 15.
John Kastrinos will be taking over trail adopter program.
5.) Other Business
Ipswich River Watershed will have a brainstorming session about outreach to Reading and
North Reading on February 24.
6.) Adjourned at 7:36.
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