South Berwick Economic Development Committee
Regular Meeting Minutes
Conference Room #1, Town Hall
April 5, 2006
11:00 am
ROLL CALL:
Cliff Cleary Chairman, James Howell, Barbara Patterson, Hap Ridgeway, Katherine Wolfe, Douglas Letellier (Water District), Sue Pullar (School Board), David Burke (Planning Board), Jim Fisk, ex-officio, present. Absent Dennis Fontaine (Sewer District), Jeff Grossman ex-officio, Terry Oliver ex-officio and Paul Schumacher ex-officio.
CALL TO ORDER:
Chairman Cleary called the meeting to order at 11:01 am. Karen Staples was recording minutes.
MINUTES:
The February 1, 2005 minutes were approved by unanimous consent. (The March meeting did not have a quorum and was not an official meeting to accept the minutes.)
PUBLIC COMMENT: None
CORRESPONDENCE:
Review of Brad Christo letter dated 3/3/06, Chairman Cleary’s letter of 3/5/06 and memo to Council from Jim Fisk.
OLD BUSINESS:
Pros and cons of Contract Zoning were discussed. Also, comments from Sue Pullar, James Howell and Doug Letellier about town wide use and consistency with Comprehensive Plan.
Katharine Wolfe and Barbara Patterson agree that the committee hold the proposed joint workshop with the Council and Planning Board.
Jim Fisk will draft a letter to Council with concerns and issues regarding the EDC endorsing the Contract Zoning workshop. Sue Pullar suggested that Jim e-mail a draft of his letter to all members of the EDC. Jim agreed. A tentative date for the workshop of May 23rd @ 6:00 pm was agreed upon.
Discussion was heard on whether or not to hold meetings according to Robert’s Rules or to use informal by-laws. A motion by Mr. Letellier not to adopt a strict version of Robert’s Rules, with a second by Mr. Burke, passed with Sue Pullar and Jim Howell opposed.
NEW BUSINESS:
Chairman Cleary and Jim Fisk agreed that next order of business for the EDC would be to set up informal subcommittees as follows:
Promotional (Work with Chamber, Business Surveys)
Katharine Wolfe, Carrie Eisner,
Organizational (Infrastructure services)
Doug Letellier, Dennis Fontaine, Sue Pullar,
Ordinance/Zone/Design (Sort out priorities of activities to work on)
David Burke, Hap Ridgway,
Financial/Economic (PTDZ, CDBG, EDA, TIF etc.)
Dennis Fontaine,
Jim will contact all committees individually to set up schedules/meetings. The chair is automatically an ex-officio member of every standing subcommittee.
OTHER:
It was agreed that a quorum of 5 (one more than half of voting members) would be used to hold a meeting.
It was suggested that the committee vote on adopting by-laws at the next meeting. Mr. Fisk will draft by-laws based on MMA Handbook.
The next meeting is scheduled for 11:00 am May 3, 2006.
ADJOURNMENT:
Without other business or objection the meeting was adjourned at 12:05 pm.
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