and we'll get this show on the road. Um, this is the October 8th meeting of the Lunberg Open Space Committee. Um, it's being held via Zoom and the Zoom webinar ID is 766 3167607.
It's also being recorded and broadcast live over Lunenberg public access channel and on Facebook live and within 24 hours it'll be found on the Lunberg access YouTube channel. Um so in accordance with uh the governor's orders
and um the open meeting law we are holding this meeting remotely and so I call the meeting to order. We have a quorum tonight which is great. Um there are we have six me sitting members but there's seven member board so there are
four of us here so we have a quorum. Um Colleen said she might be able to join. Um I hadn't heard from Tim. He might he generally joins on as well. So uh first order of business is to take a look at the minutes and I I apologize they just
went out. Um I don't know whether Eric or Anna if you've had a chance to look at them. I just looked at them. I I did. That was a easy to read and thank you uh Chris for making those. You're welcome. My apologies for the
delay when Mike sent out an email saying did I miss them and I found I found the email in my draft folder. So my apologies. Okay. Um so I've read them. I find them fine. I'm gonna I'm just going to make a couple of um minor edits to it. Chris,
sure. Um before I usually do before I send them over to the town clerk's office. Mhm. Um just Yeah. grammatical things, you know, just there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Um and actually, um Eric is here. So Eric, you're the clerk.
So would you record tonight's minutes? Sure. Thank you. So so far it's been pretty easy. It's called to order and we're just up to looking at the minutes from the meeting on the 3rd of uh September.
Um I'd entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. Second, please. Second. Thank you, Chris. So, um since we're on Zoom, we're going to do a roll call. So, Anna,
hi. Chris, hi. Eric I and the chair votes I. So the minutes have been approved. So I will u package those together and send them over to the town clerk's office. Um second order of business. Third on
the agenda is uh reports from other boards. So I don't know whether um Colleen's not here for parks. Um Chris, I don't know if you have anything from conservation that needs to come to our attention. No, I missed the last meeting and um No, so I don't have anything.
Okay. And Tim's not here for planning. So that makes that agenda. I think this is going to be a very quick meeting tonight. I you know since I am the representative of the open space into the EDC economic develop committee, we did have the town
meet and greet uh last week which is hosted by the economic develop committee. Yeah. and and it's an opportunity for uh town officials both employees and volunteers like us to you know meet with
with uh the business members of the of the our community and it was a huge success. Um again we had a lot of people there and and you know there were a lot of connections that made especially with we don't have a land user use user
director uh but Brian Gringus was there and he was able to help um you know actually talking with someone who wanted to do a development on his property but he didn't think he he could and because of I mean Brian knows so much I don't
know if you all have had an opportunity to meet him um but he was able to guide that person through, you know, what you do and how to do it. So that was right there. Was totally worth it. Um, so so anyway, so that happened and that's my report from the EDC.
Yeah, you did that at the coffee roasters. Yeah, we did. Yeah. And it and it was simpler because we were able to just bring in some snacks and they have drinks there and they have some food there. So people that wanted something different, they were serving. So it made
it much easier for us. Nice. Yeah, I was tempted to go, but um I wasn't completely mobile, so so I decided not not to do it this time. Go I've gone to those in the past. They've been really they've been good. Well, the the the townwide usually it's
for volunteers. Um they do it over at Eagle House or something. Yeah. Yeah. They do the Thank you for the volunteers. Yeah. Okay. So, this was different. This was a a meet and greet. So the volunteers is a thank you to the
volunteers that volunteered out and this one was a meet and greet of the business community with the town officials. Nice. Yeah. Very good. Okay. And Tim's not here for report from
planning, so we'll skip over that. Um, and I have met Brian Brian. He's been very helpful actually to me. Jennifer is covering so many bases over there that I've taken over um getting our Zoom link and putting our posting together and getting over to town clerk. It's
actually pretty easy, but she's just completely overwhelmed. So Brian asked if I could do it, so I've been doing that. Um good, pretty straightforward, so it's good. Yeah. And actually, they're and they're very helpful. You know, both the the Zoom uh folks and and the others that I deal
with at the town, very helpful. Okay. Uh the fourth item was other items not anticipated at the time of meeting posting and that's why I posted the meeting was just in case something came up like we usually get uh requests for weighing in on right of first refusal at the last minute. We haven't gotten
anything. So we're just going to skip over unless somebody else knows of something. Uh we're going to just skip over that one. No, I don't have anything. So okay. Um I will mention that I you know and
you guys know this we we discussed the master plan committee questions uh for open space committee at the last meeting. I put those together, sent them over to the chair of the master planning committee. Um and she said they met on I
think it was the 10th. It was the day I went in for my surgery. They met on the 10th and um she said if we had any questions we'll get back to you. I haven't heard a word. So I imagine what the responses that we gave them were adequate.
Okay. Hopefully it was I watched their meetings or most of it. Um and um and and and it it was I actually think the response that that we gave helped them learn things they didn't know
um in relation to open space, you know, land use and some of the stuff that it it was actually very good. It was a very thorough reply that we did. Okay. One of the other items while I'm while I'm talking about the last meeting, one of the other items on the meeting was Colleen brought to my
attention that there was some misposting um actually the posting had come down for the open space plan. Um and so I've worked with the IT folks and we've got that back up on the website. Um I also put up not only the letter that we got back from the state approving the
three-year extension for the open space plan, but the table that that uh we talked about and I put together and sent to the state. So, those are all now posted. Uh, that's our action plan for the next, you know, seven years or whatever it is. Um, so that's all posted
on the website now. So, I'll let Colleen know that everything's back up. That's wonderful. Okay. I don't see anybody else on the line, so I imagine we don't have any citizen comments. And so, that brings us down to almost the end of the agenda, our next
meetings. Um, next meeting is scheduled for the 12th of November and then the meeting after that is scheduled for the 10th of December. So, I'm staying away from the holidays which is which is good. So, Mike, at the last meeting um, one of the things that was kicked around was
having um this committee being uh having voting ability. Are we going to talk about that at the next meeting? Uh, Anna's taking that one on and I'll I'll defer to her. She said she'd get back to us with a discussion about that. Not necessarily this meeting, but
Right. So, I you know I was hoping I had hoped that the um bylaw review would take on you know like we could bring this to their to them and they would um take on um I they have had a couple
meetings and um and and yesterday the chair of the slack board reported and and he's it's they're not recording their meetings so I don't know exactly how it was But the it seemed that my
interpretation was and I watched live so I wasn't I might have to listen to again. He said you know if anyone wants a bylaw change they can just bring it up but that's they can do that any time which anyway I have my feelings about
that comment. Um but that wouldn't be for this town meeting that would be for the spring town meeting. Okay. So hopefully um so we can decide if we want to bring something to them and ask them to consider this but it sounds like they want other people to do the work and
bring to them and propose but we don't really need to do that. We can just if that's our proposal we can just go straight up to you know to the to the blackboard when it comes time for the springtime meeting. In short, I don't think they're going to
be doing any heavy lifting lefting from what I understood. Which that's okay. If if they want us to put a proposal together, you know, with like you did before with pros and cons and and and wording change for the bylaw, um we can certainly do that. Do you honor,
do you want to put that on want me to put that on our next agenda for the November meeting? Okay. All right. And let me add to my calendar things that I have to do. Does that give you a little time to ver
because if we if we wait till December, we're going to be, you know, voting on it in January and pretty soon they're going to have the warrant put together spring. Um, okay. I don't did you mention it sound like you said blackboard. What did you What
board were you referring to? Select board. I'm sorry. Okay. the chair of the select board is the chair select of the um bylaw review. Okay. So, I'm going I'm going to be away the week before our next meeting. So,
I'm putting a reminder to myself to to bring information to this to our next meeting. Yes, Mike, please put it on the agenda. Okay. And what I'll do is I'll collect information of how this uh the open space committee set up on different
towns. um and you know the language associated with the bylaw and they'll bring it to us and we can decide the the direction we want to go with it and and right now there's no bylaw that regulates us. We
are an ad hoc committee, right? So should we get um input maybe through Tim from the planning board? Yeah, I think I think that's that's fair too. Um,
I I Yeah, I don't. So, do we want to start where we come up with something or do we want to start where we talk with the planning board? No, I I I think we should start where we come up with something, but but I think we should get the planning board involved in that conversation early
since we're an ad hoc committee of the planning board, you know, so they don't get blindsided. Oh, definitely. Definitely. Yeah. Okay. And so I can do that. I can I can work with Tim and just and he knows because he was at the last meeting. Um
let them know that we're we're working on something to become, you know, an independent, if you will, um full-time committee under the bylaws right now. Do we have I think Brandon said at
one point we have a uh a foundation document for this committee. Um I think it's pretty much what's listed on our page on the web on the town website. Okay. But there might be a more extent uh
document but usually I refer to the website for what is the charge of our committee. Okay. I I can I'll check into that as well. I can always just contact Brandon and see if he's got something else, you know. Perfect. It's probably back when when he and and
Paul and some of the others were, you know, Bob were all the the open space committee, right? Okay, that's great. So, we've got an agenda item for next time, which is good.
and we have a plan that we'll put something to we'll get the information and we'll decide the the path that we want to go um based on other communities that exist around the Commonwealth and we can start from that. All right, I'll contact Tim
and Brandon um regarding the open space committee. Let's call it independence or whatever you want to call it. Okay, good. Um, anybody have anything else?
Um, could you just remind me when the November meeting is? What date is that again? The 12th. 12th. The 12th. Thank you. If I if I did my calendar right. Yeah. Okay. Till the 12th and then the 10th of December.
Okay. are the next two. Great. You did it right because it's on my calendar. I have a recurring meeting. There you go. Okay. So, not hearing anything. Um, like I said, this is going to be a very short meeting, which is okay with everybody, I'm sure.
Um, since baseball's on right now, we got to go watch baseball. Um, I'd entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. Thank you, Chris. Second. Um, I'll second. On a second. Okay. Uh, we'll do roll
call again. So, we'll do Anna I. Eric I. Chris I. And chair votes eye. So, we are adjourned. Um, thank you all for coming. Appreciate it. And, uh, we'll I'm sure
Anna, you and I will be chatting a little bit before the the meeting on the 12th. Now, you're gone the week before. I'm gone the week before. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, I'll put that in my calendar to get in touch with you at the end of October, basically.
Yeah, I put a reminder for me from uh October 27th. Okay. Awesome. Thank you, folks. Good night, everyone. Good night, everyone. Right. Take care.