2/16/1983 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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dk Pace 3. NEW BUSINESS 1,,) are going to get to the town beach trying to get through all these people standing in line to get to the state beach. The state has in mina to have a control center where the Jonas property is . That will not inter fe r. with the town' s operations what soveve r. she feels that we would be remiss if we didn' t all work together. Executive secretary replied that he thinks the townspeople supported the State acquisition based on an agreement. An agreement that was drafted over a lona period of time by. the townspeople through an advisory body and the State, Ike- said one of the key eliments to this agreement, was the reconstruction of Great Oak Road. He said that at this. submitted point a request has been suitted for $800 ,'000 . u o . to reconstruct the road and the. state has not appropriated fund nor approved the authorization for borrowing. He feels , if , the state is allowed to - open the beach on a limited- basis they will have less incentive .on the part of the Commonwealth to- rebuild the road. - He said furthermore the indication. of the plans that. was diving to- the south Cape Beach Advisory Committee indicated. that the gate- to the state facility was not at r. - Joras ' s. property. but along was is the present- dirt portion which is now Great Oak Road, He said. their are question to the accessibility to the town beach that the planners could not answer,, He feels our problem is that we are going to open up the town beach very shortly' and if the s-tate hasn-' t come up with a plan in six months what are they . going to do in the next 'four months ,, hm. Thomas said the Recreation Director should move along with her plains w of operating a town beach. Executive secretary said that their is another problem involved-. He ' said what is the position of the Selectmen on the town beach with the residents permits - versus the non residents . He stated that approximately half of the revenue for the town last year came from non residents . Chm. Thomas said that this should be the same as last year. Executive Secretary said, Met us assume that the State Park is opened on a limited basis and the parking lot has room for 100 to' .120, cars and there is an influx of people who come down to use the state facility,, at that point the- people would not be allowed to go onto the town beach.' . Chm. Thomas said they would pay a non residential fee . He feels this is a town policy that will have to be decided very shortly. Wendy Dubin, the Recreation Director was recognized by the Chairwoman. Ms . Rubin stated that .She had net with Mr. Peterson -yesterday after- noon to discuss the possibilities and conditions, trying to get all the ifs covered, she said that one of- the possibilities was that if they did have limited use this year the would dive us what we want. We could reserve spaces at out parking lot, or allow the other spaces to be filled as they become available. we could tale thea. as a- first come first serge basis as we did in the past or we could request that they fill their parking lot first , and send the excess to us. My per- sonal feeling t this point, I cannot see us maintaining the services on the beach financially without' the non residents . She feels if this cannot be worked out we will definately need a policy to be sot.