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Brewster Natural
Resources Advisory
Commission
Kimberley Crocker Pearson,
Chair
Amy Henderson, Vice
Chair, Brewster Conservation
Trust Representative
Pat Hughes, Clerk
Ron Essig, Brewster Pond
Coalition
Chris Williams
Elizabeth Taylor, Open Space
Committee
Scott Weissman
Mary Chaffee, Select Board
Liaison
Natural Resources
Department
Chris Miller, Director
Ryan Burch, Senior Natural
Resources Assistant
David Johnson, Natural
Resources Officer
William Grafton, Conservation
Administrator
Cassandra West, Senior
Department Assistant
Town of Brewster
Natural Resources Advisory Commission
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MEETING AGENDA
Thursday, February 8, 2024 6:00 PM
This meeting will be conducted in person at the time and location identified above. Members of
the public who wish to access the meeting remotely may do so in the following manner:
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1 . Call to Order
2. Declaration of a Quorum
3. Recording Statement
4. Citizens Forum:
a. Home Rule Petition for Pesticide Reduction - Presentation by Laura Kelley,
POCCA (Protect Our Cape Cod Aquifer)
5. Notes from the Chair:
a. Beautify Brewster: Saturday, April 27, 2024
i. Medication Take Back Day: BPD
b. Brewster Conservation Day: Saturday, July 13, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm,
Drummer Boy Park.
i. Trees are the theme this year
c. Congratulations to Brewster -based non-profit Sustainable Practices on their
Governor's Citation recognition
d. Brewster 3rd Grade Nickerson State Park Field Trip
e. Follow up: DMF River Herring Spawning and Nursery Habitat Assessment:
Stony Brook Watershed
f. Follow up: Coastal Resource Management Plan: Shellfish Regulations
i. Planning resident forums to discuss regulation updates
ii. Beach Profiling Pilot Project: Tricia Teixeira, CCCC
g. Follow up: NRAC HS Student Member
6. Town of Brewster Pond Management Plan
a. Existing Conditions Report - pending
b. Designated Uses Survey - Pearson
c. Pond Management Plan Benchmarking - Reports of Commissioners
i. Comm'rs Essig/Williams;
ii. Comm'rs Hughes/Weissman
iii. Comm'rs Taylor/Henderson
7. Reports
a. Director of Natural Resources
b. Represented organizations and committees
8. Approval of Minutes
9. Matters not reasonably anticipated by the Chair
10 Topic(s) for next meeting:
a. State of the Waters 2023 Report
b. Pond Management Plan
i. Existing conditions - Eichner Draft Report (PALS and other data)
ii. Designated uses - Survey Process
c. Town Tree Replacement Policy
11 Informational Items:
a. State of the Waters: Cape Cod 2023: httpsJ/capecodwaters.org
b. River Herring Spawning and Nursery Habitat Assessment Acushnet River
Watershed, 2019-2020: https://www.mass.gov/doc/technical-rer)ort-tr-
80/download -
12. Adjournment
Date Posted: Date Revised: Received by Town Clerk