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October 17, 2005 Master Plan Advisory Committee (MPAC) Meeting
Date: October 17, 2005
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Town Hall Selectman's Meeting Room
Attendees: George Katsoufis (GK), Virginia Adams (VA), Jack Russell (JR), Susan DeMatteo (SD),
Chris Reilly (CR), Neil Sullivan (NS), John Sasso (JS), Richard Howard (RH), Janet Allen (JA)
Agenda & Discussion
(1) Review presentation schedule and ensure assignments are made for remaining groups.
We discussed the approach for reaching out to the remaining boards and organizations, including sending
out a copy of the presentation, questionnaire and offering to attend one of their upcoming meetings.
(2) Review Implementation and Conclusion Chapters based on updates and comments made.
CR provided an updated document to the committee for review. It is still missing the Natural and
Cultural resources priority objective discussion, and some additional changes were discussed including
the need to finalize the "Political Landscape" section in the conclusion. The section summarizing survey
results will be added after all the survey's are in, and the committee agreed that we should wait until after
Town Meeting to work on updating the dates for action items.
(3) Discuss results of meeting with Town Manager and impact to Services and Facilities.
GK, CR, and JS met with the Town Manager on 10/17/05 to discuss his concerns with the current
approach to the Services and Facilities section. We agreed upon a rationale for improving the goals and
objectives and aligning them better with Town Priorities and broad values and issues for the Town.
(4) Review Questionnaire feedback to date.
CR indicated that we have received well over 100 surveys back from the residents. Additional copies will
be distributed (along with the Executive Summary) to town meeting members, and we are going to
attempt to get a copy of it into the Advocate (it was already included in the Chronicle). GK and JA
volunteered to spend a morning at Atlantic handing out surveys as well.
(5) Discuss Upcoming Town Meeting Presentation
We are set for presentation to Town Meeting on November 14`h. We are planning to have a table setup
outside of the auditorium with a place to drop off surveys and ask questions. The plan is to arrive
between 6:30 and 6:45pm. CR will ensure we get a table.
(6) Discuss BOS Comments from MPAC presentation
We reviewed the summary notes that CR drafted from this meeting. Some of the actions (discussed
above and listed below) are results of these comments.
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Action Items
(1) GK and JS to update the Service and Facility Chapter goals and objectives and present to MPAC
at 11/7/05 meeting
(2) GK to provide a draft of the new "Political Landscape" conclusion section to committee for
review by 1111105
(3) CR to send out email notice to other Town committees informing them of the MPAC efforts,
including a copy of the presentation, executive summary and questionnaire. We will offer to
attend one of their upcoming meetings, and at a minimum hope they will provide us with
feedback in the form of completed questionnaires. CR will also make a concerted effort to get on
the ConsCom agenda as well.
(4) CR to update the Implementation Chapter to include the Natural and Cultural resources priority
objectives in the text and table and provide to RH.
(5) RH to review the Implementation chapter formatting and provide a final update to MPAC by
11/1/05.
(6) RH to draft letter to the editor (Advocate) for Master Plan activities and request they include the
Questionnaire in the paper.
(7) JA and GK to stand out in front of Atlantic on a Saturday AM and hand out questionnaires (do
you need to get permission from Atlantic??)
(8) RH to contact the Recreation committee and ask that they nominate a member to participate on
the MPAC
(9) MPAC members to review the details of the action strategies found in the Implementation chapter
in preparation for a review on 11/7/05 (RH to send out update on 1111105 above).
5. Next MPAC Meeting- NOTE DATE CHANGE
Monday, November 7, 7:30pm, Town Hall Conference Room
Topics/A eg_nda:
(1) Review of Services and Facilities Goals and Objectives
(2) Review of Updated Implementation Chapter Format
(3) Review of Political Landscape section of Conclusion Chapter
(4) Review of all Action Strategies in Implementation Chapter
(5) Dry Run of Town Meeting Presentation
(6) Determine if we need to present at any other Town Boards (feedback from CR Email?)
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