5/18/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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The vice Chair said that in the-.financial there were four or five candidates and that they had one lawyer who expressed interest. Someone with development credentials and real estate credentials was needed, said Mr. Miller. Mr. Theis said that if the Board looked at some of the financial people, they would final develop ers among them, Nis. Elizenberry asked what Mr. Miller meant by the low-income candidate. Mr. Miller said that there were seven positions to be appointed, two of thein at-large and one each from the different categories, low income was one. He said he thought that the words "low income'} was custommy language in statutes that the legislature has approved to create EDIC's. Most of the relevance of it might be m industrialized areas, said Mr.�Miller. The Chairman disclosed the types of candidates needed-.'seven members of the hoard, at least one member should be experienced in industrial or commercial development} one financid manager- one concerning real estate matters; one in municipal governthen:t and One representative of low income people, who should be chosen by a list- of three, submitted by regional or local community action mernbers. Mr. Miller said that it would require outreach, with at least one ad in "The Enterprise," either the Mashpee paper or all the enterprises. The web site with postings, -which appeared on that for a short period of time. Those two vehicles could be renewed, he added, to stimulate some interest. Mr. Miller said he had stopped at the Conservation Office in the morning and said he had not brought in the minutes of the meeting. He said most of the discussion centered around, if there was one thing the Conservation Commission would lire to see is a productive, sustainable education program in whatever format it takes. He said they were bullish helping and participating in anything done in an educational nature, specifically areas of interest of the Conservation Commission* Mr. Theis spoke about the Conservation Commission promoting what the B;R. . . was ..--- doing in education _ ,Mr. Miller agreed and said he thought that if he had been at the meeting he would have asked if there was any funding available in the conservation conmssion budget for that. He said that the Conunission did have funds for enforcement that may or may not be utilized each year. 14e. added that there was some discussion regarding the DCPC Chan's position before the conservation commission did anything further, and added that what he said was paraphrasing the meeting notes. _ .t the friendly lawn group, _ M's. gurney as ��if t�i�r� r�� sponsors for W., Theis said there were a number of landscapers in Mashpee and that they would be interested in natural landscaping. Ms. Gurney asked if the conservation commission world be willing to sponsor someone. She said that herself, at hone, was looking up lawn ser-rices and saw those offered free analyses, that in only one,in tiny lettering in the back listed was non-chemical. Thi h� ased.:louglas. tura - ,e.:11_:auuyig,rte , h-lx:_ tcrs deferred. Mr. Fudala, the Town Planner} passed out documents and spoke to the B R C C, presenting tree items that the Planning Board had been warping on. He spoke about Charles Rowley, the Tow Engineer's report on storm water issues, that one Route 28 in all the piping there was no erosion issue coag Rom the state highway. The Town Manner said that on Route 130 in Mashpee, storm water was not getting through to the river and puddling at the east end of the bridge, causing erosion. Mr, Rowley also did a report on three locations, .said W Fudala: Santuit Diver} Route 130 Crossing and Old Ding's Highway. He said that the storm drain missed the gain and went directly to Santuit River. Mr. Fudala added that there was a direct run-off on Sampson"s Road. He said that Mashpee needed to work with Barnstable on all sediment issues.