10/8/2009 ENVIRONMENTAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Minutes

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+ t Town of M shpee Environmental Oversight Committee Mutes of Meeting October 8,200 F Present: Chairman Jon Myers, Ed faker, Mary.Waygan, Ted Theis, Rick York Also Present: Andrew McManus-Conservation Agent, Beverly Dane CALF. TO ORDER The meeting was called to order Vath a quorum at 7:01 p.m. by Chairman Myers. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES Motion made by Mr. Baker to approve the minutes of September 10,2009 as amended. Motion seconded by Ms.Waygan. All voted unanimously. Co CATIONS There was no public comment at this time. MASHPEE BLUE BOOK Beverly Dane reported that she and Evelyn Bushenfeld met with Joseph Beck at Upper Cape Technical School to discuss costs of outputting the boob. The school has the appropriate materials and equipment to create the boob and� .oul require a PDF document to output it. The proposal costs for color output are as follows: 500 books @ $1.70 each=$8,500.00 . 7,500 books @ $1.55 each=$11,625.00 10,000 @$1.30 each=$13,000.00 Regarding the re-naming of the book,the Chair questioned Mr. Theis whether or not the Chamber would be interested in naming the book. Mr. Theis suggested that the contest be town vide and/or work Within the school system. ether naming ideas were discussed such as a duck race. The Committee expressed interest in working with the School Committee contact in order to start assigmg `n graphics to be re-designed by the students. Mr. Theis volunteered to assist as contact with the schools and the Chair announced that a science teacher from the High School has volunteered to serve as a representative'on the Conunittee. The Chair will contact the School Committee to .determine if they would consider sponsoring a naming contest in order to involve the children. It was also suggested that the High School Envirorumental Club be invited to manage the school used naming contest. It was noted that the school year will be dosing in.lune and members want to see graphics and naming completed before the enol of the year. A draft for the introduction pages and Chapter l was shared with members of the Conunittee. Ms. Kane indicated that the graphics for the introduction and Chapter 1 sloes not require any changes. The deletion of existing graphics is tedious,but the Ma hpee Environmental Coalition will identify graphics that could be reproduced by students. It was suggested that graphics depicting cartoon type images, not charts and graphs,would be candidates for replacement with student artwork. The PDF mill be provided to the school contacts in order to assist with identifying replaceable images.