Members Present: Dick Cook, Chair; Lisa Fenton, Vice-Chair; Anthony Antoniello, Scott Roberts, Karen Connolly, Maura Curran, Constantine Constantinides, Bob DeLorenzo

Also Present: Mr. Rick Agnew, Town Administrator

1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER: Mr. Cook called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. at the Scituate Town Library.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA:

On a MOTION by Mr. Constantinides, SECONDED by Mr. Antoniello, the agenda was approved by unanimous vote (7-0).

3. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES

On a MOTION by Mr. Constantinides, SECONDED by Mr. Antoniello the minutes from 2.26.09 were approved as amended by unanimous vote (7-0).

On a MOTION by Ms. Connolly, SECONDED by Mr. DeLorenzo the minutes from 2.12.09 were approved as amended by unanimous vote (7-0).

4. REMAINING CPC ARTICLES
• John Bulman presented CPC Articles
• Mr. Bulman reviewed CPC Articles already done.
• Local Historical Survey of the Ellis Estate was voted to spend $5,000 to get on National Register Listing to enable them to go after grant money.
• Town needs to decide what they want to do with the Ellis Estate.
• Ms. Connolly speculated as to the value of spending $5,000 if the building is going to fall down.
• Mr. Roberts supported that point of view.
• Mr. Constantinides inquired about the leasing of property to the Art Association and was told that they are tenants-at-will
• Ms. Fenton provided a case for the rich historical significance of the property.

On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Mr. DeLorenzo to appropriate $5,000 toward a historical survey of the Ellis Estate was approved (6-1).

Town Archives Preservation
• $140,000 to address current challenge of caring for records. Phase III of IV.
• Climate control is an issue, security for the records also needs to be improved.

On a MOTION by Ms. Connolly, SECONDED by Ms. Fenton for Town Archives Preservation for $140,000 was approved by unanimous vote (7-0).

AFFORDABLE HOUSING
• The Board of Selectmen are holding off on this.
• The 700,000 if put into trust is irrevocable.
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On a MOTION by Ms. Fenton, SECONDED by Mr. Antoniello for $700,000 for affordable housing trust was approved by unanimous support (7-0).

• $1.2 million estimated for next year
• The breakdown as follows:
o 10% go into community housing reserve
o 10% historical resources
o 10% open spaces reserve

Maura Curran joined meeting at 7:50 pm.

On a MOTION by Mr. Constantinides, SECONDED by Mr. Roberts three appropriations to the reserve fund were approved by unanimous support (8-0).

On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Fenton, $60,000 for administration was approved by unanimous support (8-0.)

5. VOTE ARTICLES 17, 18

Mr. Agnew explained Article 17 for the easement to complete the bike path for $1.

On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Curran Article 17 for the easement for $1 for the bike/pedestrian path was approved by unanimous support (8-0).

On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Curran Article 18 for the easement from Scituate Housing Authority for the bike/pedestrian path on Kent Street was approved by unanimous support (8-0).

6. REVIEW STM Articles

STM Article 1:
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Mr. Constantinides, STM Article 1 for $3,383.95 for Bill of Prior Years was approved by unanimous support (8-0).

STM Article 2: Transfers

Transfer from Water
• Golf Enterprise $23,000 for Aerator which is needed for Course Greens and Fairways.
Transfer from Retained Earnings:
• Sewer Enterprise for
o Electricity is short for $110,000
o Rentals $15,000
• Water Enterprise
o Chemicals $152,000
o Electricity $76,000
o Tech Services $79,000
o Supplies $47,000
Transfer from Old Articles
• Snow and Ice $200,000
• Street lights $30,000
• Veterans Subsistence $7,000 (State reimburses 75%)
• Contrib. Group Ins. $33,000 from Old Articles and Overlay Surplus
From Overlay Surplus
• Unemployment $72,000

On a MOTION by Ms. Fenton, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly to move transfers as written was approved by unanimous support (8-0.)

STM Article 3. Accept gift of land off Bates Lane

On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Fenton to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire a parcel of land approximately .92 acres off Bates Lane was approved by unanimous vote (8-0).

STM Article 4.
On a MOTION by Mr. DeLorenzo, SECONDED by Ms. Fenton to authorize OCW easement for the streetscapes project was approved by unanimous vote (8-0).

STM Article 5.
While the wording for wind turbine land lease article is being written, the Committee agreed to wait on a vote of Article 5.

Mr. Cook credited Mr. Agnew for good work and leaving town in good standing.

7. MARK MASON LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
On a MOTION by Ms. Curran, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, the Mark Mason letter of recommendation was approved as amended by unanimous vote (8-0).

8. OLD BUSINESS – None.

9. NEW BUSINESS
Next Week’s Agenda
-draft of book
-look at budget for vote on final number

10. ADJOURNMENT
On a MOTION by Mr. Constantinides, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, the Meeting was adjourned at 9:15 pm by unanimous vote (8-0).

Respectfully submitted by Heather Dwyer