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UPPER CHARLES TRAIL COMMITTEE
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 7:05 PM
Room 211, Town Hall, 18 Main St., Hopkinton, MA
MINUTES
Members present: Bob Snyder, Ken Parker, Jane Moran, Mike Resteghini, Barry Rosenbloom,
Eric Sonnett, Jeff Barnes
Members absent: John Mosher, Gary Trendel
1. The easement being offered by Connors on behalf of Croft was discussed. The town meeting
article for the easement was also discussed. Town Counsel has approved the language of the
final easement document. Suggestions from Town Counsel to Connors have been
implemented. Final Town Counsel sign-off hasn’t yet happened. Jeff will talk to Elaine and
have her ask Town Counsel for a final review.
2. The Wyckoff appraisal should be done by Friday.
3. The town budget has a UCTC line item for $42.7K. This is the full amount that we asked for.
4. A broad discussion of developing trails across wetlands ensued. It was noted that the
Conservation Commission (Concom) wants a maximum wetlands displacement of 5000
square feet. Jeff suggested that we give the Concom displacement number (whatever it is) to
the contractor that we select to do the feasibility study.
5. Barry asked how the MAPC organization could help us progress. Eric pointed out that we do
want that organization to “bless” our work, but that they probably can’t get us “jumpstarted”.
6. It was noted that once authorized, we can obtain feasibility study bids of up to $25K by
telephone. Jeff will distribute the Scope of Work (SoW) document for the Master Plan
(feasibility study) at our next meeting.
7. We discussed our “presentation”. Jeff has prepared and distributed related material. Ken has
made the presentations that have occurred so far, using his own slides. Ken and Jeff agreed to
merge the work that they have done so far.
8. Jeff called out Connorstone Engineering and Croft for their considerable assistance to our
efforts to date.
9. The draft minutes of the 3/12/14 meeting were unanimously approved as submitted.
10. Meeting was adjourned at 8:07 PM.
Approved: April 16, 2014
Documents used at the meeting:
Meeting agenda
Draft Minutes of 3/12/14 meeting