So, are we Ian? You can just let me know. We're all set. It's Ian, whoever the videographer is today. It's Aaron today. All set. All set. Okay. Well, good morning everyone. Uh, this meeting of the Bonstable County Commissioners will be conducted via remote means in accordance with applicable law. Persons wishing to participate may do so by accessing the meeting via Microsoft Teams for instructions on how to join the meeting remotely. Please refer to the meeting agenda found on the Bonstable County
website under meeting center menu and please use the team's raise hand feature to be acknowledged when public participation is required by law or allowed by the board chair. And with that, I call to order the November 26th, 2025 meeting of the board of regional commissioners. And please uh join us in a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
America of America and to theublic to the republic for which it stands. One nation one nation under God under God, indivisible with liberty, liberty and justice for all. for all. And may we have a moment of silence to give thanks as we head into our Thanksgiving holiday for all the blessings we have as Americans. And we'll try to cut through the noise and
uh appreciate those blessings. And also to remember uh those who have sacrificed and their bravery for all those who have put their lines on the life on the line in service to our country protecting our safety, freedom, and our democracy. Thank you. There any public comment? See any hands? Right. I'm not missing anything. All right. Seeing none, uh, do I have an approval
of the meeting minutes? November 19th. So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Roll call. Roll call vote. Forest says I. Burkstrom I. And Lion says I. Okay. We're meeting here today to uh review uh ordinance 2025-13, the update to the Cape Cod Commission regional policy plan of 2025. And with us today is Christy Sanator. Yes, she's here. Good morning. And her team in the commission. Yes. Good morning,
commissioners. Um, thank you for the opportunity to be here today for holding this meeting. Um, again, Christy Senator, I'm the executive director of the Cape Cod Commission. I am um, pleased today to share with you the final draft of the regional policy plan. This was approved by the Cape Cod Commission on October 16th as well as the Assembly of Delegates on November 19th. Um, and as you know, this draft is the result of many months of work, not only by commission staff, but by stakeholders, leaders, officials, and community members from across the Cape. Um,
really contributing to this plan to make it responsive to the needs of the Cape today. Um, we did present a draft of the plan to you in October during that public comment period, and it is now before you for adoption as an ordinance. We held um a 60-day public comment period, which we extended an additional 30 days to allow for all public comments to be heard. We held a number of public hearings and meetings and opportunities for feedback on the draft RP um that's before you today. Um during that public comment period, we received more than
100 comments and they were broadly grouped into a few categories. Um, we heard a lot of support for the protection of natural resources and in response to that we added more language about the importance of ponds um in the importance of the incorporation of biodiversity throughout the plan. We also heard um from commenters that suggested further recognition of the Cape's um finite resources and so we've added um finite to the growth policy and recognition of that and we've
also increased um aquafer protection planning and then finally there was also support for many of the proposed recommendations that are new within the plan itself and the recommended actions um in particular the regional open space plan um and the numerous actions that are related to water protection and planning um as well as many of the housing related recommendations. Um so I'm happy to go into detail on any particular area or answer any questions that you may have. And as you can
see, we do have a number of uh technical staff available on the call today if you have any any questions. Um and so what we would respectfully request is that you adopt the 2025 regional policy plan as a county ordinance. and um just wanted to thank you for meeting today and thank you for um your time and for your support of our work and of this important plan. So I'll pause there and happy to answer questions. Well, first thank you for that. I I do want to say that um it's it pays for
people to make their public their comments public and known to those who are writing different policies because obviously you are listening and um and taking it to heart. Does does is there any particular area anybody wants to hear about on this? You want to review anything, commissioners? And if you do, just I think Ron Ron's got his hand up. Yeah, Ron. Uh yeah, I just I don't I obviously as a member of the commission, I've had a chance to review this in detail uh just recently and I
just like to reiterate what Christie said. Uh even though this is sort of a uh impromptu meeting, a lot of work went into this by a lot of staff and members of the public. So we shouldn't forget for months. So here we are and and uh given an opportunity to I think would be final approval. Although does it go to the assembly? Yeah, it goes to the assembly. So anyway, so I appreciate all the work that was done and uh hopefully the assembly will approve it and we'll move on to other things that we can do. Okay. No, Madam Chair, I think Yeah. Go ahead, Mark. I just want
to say the the assembly's already acted on it. We now have this ordinance from the Yeah. And I I I watched the dis the discussion. Um the one thing I'd like to add add Madame Chair is is just a comment and second um the comments of Commissioner Bergstrom. U the amount of work that went into this was just extraordinary and um in reading reading through the introduction and some of the other information in this uh I would have to say that um it really reflects um you know it's it's
it's it's above and beyond the call in terms of an update. I think it hits all the right issues, hits all the key concerns, and I think it's just an incredible job u by Christy and everyone on the staff. I think they they deserve our appreciation and congratulations for uh an outstanding job. You know, often times when they make the rounds, people are coming to them and griping about this or griping about that. Often what gets lost is the enormous amount of work that goes into putting
together something like this. And uh um it's well written. It's it's well put together. And uh uh I wanted to have a meeting just so that we could say publicly how impressed we are with the work that they've done and how much we're impressed with this update. Well, there you go. Um so what I'm going to do is I am going to uh take this weekend to read it and if we have any questions as we read this uh more carefully. I want to see what the changes are. I did go over the first one.
Um we may have you back to go over some of those things but until then uh I'm happy to entertain a motion of acceptance. Well, Madam Chair, then I'd like to move to authorize ordinance 20 25 that is ordinance 2025-13 update to the Cape Cod Commission regional policy plan 2025. I'll second that motion. Okay. Roll call vote, please. Forest votes eye and Lions votes eye. All right,
we'll have more questions later, but until then everybody have a wonderful holiday weekend. Thank you very much. We appreciate your support. Happy to come back anytime. Grateful for all of you and thankful. So, have a good weekend. Thank you. You, too. Okay. Okay. Uh, any other new business? I think I did say um I said it at the beginning so I'll just say it now just to alert the other commissioners or even anybody who's interested there is going to be a talk sort of about what
the cuts will mean for the outer cape health organization on the outer cape and that's going to be Monday with the CEO uh Damian Archer at the Harbor Lounge in Province Town and I know that that's not for public as much as I mean it's only so big the Harbor Lounge but I know that it's for elected officials as we're concerned about what's happening in the impact it may have, any cuts will have on our community. What time is What time is that, Sheila? Be at 5:00. Five o'clock at night. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Which is really
Yes. Yeah, just want to wish just want to wish that the administration and the staff uh a happy Thanksgiving and hopefully they don't overindulge, but uh indulge as much as they feel is appropriate and uh we'll get back on the other side of this holiday and get back to business. Okay, we'll all be a little larger and um hopefully all of that uh rich food will wear off by Monday. Um Michael, do you have any um updates or anything you want to let us know while you have that chance? Uh, nothing at this point. Nope. I'm I'm good. Good. All right. So, if there's uh
nothing from the administrator, uh all I see is the last item on our agenda. Move to adjourn. There you go. We'll just skip over. Yeah, there you go. I'll second I'll second that. Commissioner Bergstrom. Okay. All right. All in favor? Roll call vote. Forest votes. Forest votes I. Lions vosai as well. Happy holidays. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be safe. Likewise. Thank you. You see you. Bye.