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October 3, 2005 Master Plan Advisory Committee (MPAC) Meeting
Date: October 3, 2005
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Town Hall Conference Room
Attendees: George Katsoufis (GK), Virginia Adams (VA), Jack Russell (JR), Susan DeMatteo (SD),
Chris Reilly (CR), Neil Sullivan (NS), John Sasso (JS)
Agenda & Discussion
1. Implementation and Conclusion Chapter
The committee reviewed the drafts from John and George for these two last chapters. A few minor
editorial and structure comments were made, but by in-large the committee approved of the chapters.
Dick had provided a summary of the Priority Objectives Timeline prior to the meeting. We noticed that
at least one of the primary. chapter priority objectives were missing from the document, but otherwise the
format and information seemed to be nicely arranged and would serve as a table in the resulting
document. We agreed not to deal with the "due dates" until we had completed the rest of our efforts. The
Committee agreed on the final format for these last two chapters as follows:
Implementation Chapter
Section 1: Criteria and Prioritization
Remaining effort in this area is to add the summary of the survey results once final
Section 2: Implemenation Plans
a) Introductory Paragraph on Format and Assignment
b) Listing of the Action Strategies to include the summary table at the end of the section
Section 3: Fiscal Realities
This is the section that George drafted. It will be rewritten to fit at the end of the
Implementation section instead of in the Conclusion
Conclusion Chapter
Section 1: Future Efforts
Section 2: Political Will
We may need to retitle this section, but essentially we agreed to take another stab at
describing the factors that affect the success or failure this master plan. Issues to include are the town
stakeholders (Electorate - Town Staff - Town Boards - and of course the people), and other factors such
as pending state legislation, etc. George has the action to work on this section.
Section 3: Next Master Plan Issuance
2. Presentations
The committee discussed the status of the presentations being made to the various boards, committees,
town staff and other civic and local organizations. Unfortunately with a limited attendance, we were not
able to get a status of all of the planned presentations. This information will be reviewed in detail at our
next meeting. We then discussed the feedback from the BOS presentation. We all felt the presentation
seemed to be well accepted. One specific action to address is how to revisit the services and facilities
chapter given that the direct references to the 10 year capital plan may not be appropriate. The committee
-a decided to meet with the Town Manager to discuss options, including getting a priority list of internal
town staff objectives. The rationale is that if the state is serious about using Master Plans as guidance,
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especially for validating grants, we need to ensure items that may be contingent upon inclusion in the
Master Plan are in fact addressed.
4. Action Items
(1) Chris to update Master Plan with draft Implementation and Conclusion Chapters
(2) George to provide a draft of the new "Political Will" conclusion section to committee for review.
(3) John S. and George K. to meeting with Town Manager (with Chris) to discuss Services and
Facilities objectives
(4) John S. to send email to committee to solicit status of presentations for review at next meeting
(5) Chris to update Priority Objective table with missing objectives and actions.
(6) CR will check on Map preparation status with GID Coordinator and hopefully have some maps to
review for 10.17
5. Next MPAC Meeting
Monday, October 17, 7:00-8:00pm, Selectman's conference room (at beginning of CPDC meeting)
Topics/A enda:
• Review presentation schedule and ensure assignments are made for remaining groups.
• Review Implementation and Conclusion Chapters based on updates and comments made.
• Discuss results of meeting with Town Manager and impact to Services and Facilities.
• Review Questionnaire feedback to date.
• Discuss Upcoming Town Meeting Presentation
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