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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992-10-13 Board of Selectmen Minutes Minutes of the Board of Selectmen Meeting October 13, 1992 The meeting was convened at 7: 30 p.m. in the Selectmens' Meeting Room, 16 Lowell Street, Reading, Massachusetts. Present were Chairman Dan Ensminger, Vice Chairman George Hines, Secretary Sally Hoyt, Selectmen Eugene Nigro and Bill Burditt Hines, Town Manager Peter Hechenbleikner and the following list of interested parties: Nancy . Shipes, Arthur O'Brien, Nancy Eaton, Tom Stohlman, and Jonathan Barnes. On motion by Hoyt seconded by Nigro the Board approved the Minutes of the Emergency Meeting of 10/2/92 by a vote of 3-0-2 with Nigro and Burditt abstaining. On motion by Nigro seconded by Burditt the Board approved the minutes of 10/6/92 by vote of 5-0-0. The Town Manager gave the Board of Selectmen an update on the cost of the water emergency to date. The total cost is slightly over $100, 000. The Board felt that we should also charge some- thing for the Town Manager's and Public Works Director's time. The question was also asked as to what the relative costs of MWRA water vs. Town water would be. On motion by Hines seconded by Nigro the Board voted to approve the lease between the Town of Reading and the Reading Housing Authority to lease from the Housing Authority and operate as a joint parking lot 2 , 988 square feet of land at the intersection of Pleasant and Parker Streets shown on the plan entitled Parker Street Improvements dated 8/3/92 revised 10/13/92 attached thereto as Exhibit A. The motion was approved by a vote of 5-0- 0. The Board discussed the Warrant for the Subsequent Town Meeting. Under Reports, there will be a report on water quality and on sale of land fill. The Town Manager reviewed the proposed budget changes. More detail and discussion will be scheduled for the following Tues- day. Jonathan Barnes, Chairman of CPDC; Nancy Shipes and Tom Stohlman, members of CPDC, and Jonathan Edwards reviewed the Zoning Ar- ticles. Articles 23 and 28 deal with lot widths and site set back. Edwards indicated that approximately 22% of all existing lots are currently non-conforming. Article 24 dealing with text changes in the PUD was discussed. This change . would simplify some of the procedure and permit biotech uses. It was questioned whether the PUD usage should be expanded to provide for retail and to provide better protection for the Town, since retail is also permitted as of right in the underlying industrial zone. There was extensive discussion on the planned residential development Articles. Concerns were ex- pressed about the minimum lot size for a PRDG, and the fact that the changes being proposed were very extensive and had had little public input. Selectmens Minutes - 10/13/92 - page 2 The Board agreed to meet on the 27th with the School Committee to discuss their Articles. On motion by Nigro seconded by Burditt the Board voted to go into Executive Session for the purpose of discussing real estate nego- tiations not to come back into Open Session. All five members voted in the affirmative, and the Board adjourned to Executive Session at 10: 53 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Secret PUBLIC COMMENT POLICY I I Purpose: To allow citizens to impart information or to ad- dress issues which are not current or recent past agenda items and allow the Board of Selectmen to: take the issue under advisement for immediate or future action; to dispatch the issue for staff in- vestigation or to schedule future agenda time for a complete discussion of the issue. j Policy There shall be a period of time on the Board of Selectmen's agenda identified as Public Comment. This permanent agenda section will ordinarily be allotted fifteen to twenty minutes on the agenda schedule. The use of this forum should be to ad- dress time-sensitive issues for which there is not time to wait for an assigned agenda slot or if ef- forts to get agenda time have not been fruitful. The individual or group spokesman will be allotted two to three minutes to present a concise summary of the issue or problem. It is the intent of this policy that issues or problems to be dealt with during Public Comment should have been pursued through ordinary channels first. -- Procedure: A citizen desiring to utilize the Public Comment period for the above stated purpose shall verbally notify the Chairman or the Town Manager prior to the start of the meeting or by writing their name and the subject of the comment on a copy of the agenda, which is available at the door, and hand it to the Chairman prior to the conclusion of the Public Comment session. The Chairman shall have the discretion of whether to allow the Public Com- ment section to proceed beyond the maximum al- lotted time of twenty minutes.