MinutesBradford Conservation Commission MeetingSeptember 2, 2009

Members Present:

Ed Wendell, Monique Priestley, Tom Gray, Gary Tillotson,Barbara Kulzyck, Sandy Price(Monique was appointed at the last Selectboard meeting; the Selectboardrequested that Jared Pendak submit a letter of resignation)

Minutes

of 8/19 were approved as written

Management Plan –

Gary, Barbara & Nancy have not met yet to work on this;table until another meeting

Stewardship –

Gary and Tom will make arrangements to install a culvert along Joel’s trail this fall; a hike into the interior of the Davis land to flag a new trail willtake place mid to late September.It was voted to allocate $419 from the FOWM Fund for a string-trimmer, withattachable blade that Gary will purchase from The Tool Barn. The Tool Barn willmail the invoice.

Conservation Fund –

It was decided that BCC will not have a booth at “Made InVermont” on September 12

due to too many other commitments and notenough workers.

Compost/Education –

Nancy has worked at Oxbow this week to 1) help makefood waste separation a part of the regular routine; 2) help institute recycling inall areas, especially on the playing fields; 3) help re-vitalize/organize the studentEnvironmental Coalition. She has:

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Explained the process and concept at 6 grade level assemblies

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Set up the source separation station in the lunch room and monitored thestudents in 2 lunch periods each day

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Met with the Community Scholarship coordinator and set up the mechanismfor students to get community service credits for assisting with thecomposting process

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Recruited and trained 2 students for each lunch period to set up the sourceseparation station, empty and clean the buckets

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Arranged for the kitchen staff to separate food scraps in the kitchen

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Worked with Dylan Parkin to sign up about 20 interested students, secureda meeting room and set a date for the first meeting of the EnvironmentalCoalition

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Met with the Director of Buildings & Grounds and agreed on the need for 4recyclables containers on the playing fields. He will order these, and willhave in place for a special event on 9/19Still need to recruit students to monitor the food separation station on a regularbasis.

Will ask the Env. Coalition students to contribute $ for one of the outsiderecyclable bins.It was voted to contribute $250 from the Energy Budget toward outsiderecyclable bins at Oxbow. Mark McKenna, Director of Buildings and Grounds willadvise on how to direct this check.

Energy Committee

Workshops, Renewable Energy Vendors, Field Trips, Farmer’s Market, Musicians,Children’s Activities are all coming together. Mary Wendell is securingadvertisers for the 16-page tabloid that will be mailed to over 11,000 households. The schedule and tabloid will be completed by the last week of September andwill be in mailboxes between 10/2 and 10/8It was voted to pay a $100 deposit to Grace United Methodist Church for rental of rooms for workshops for LEAF, payable from the Leaf Budget.

Reusable Bags/Recycling Tires

Barbara reported that the coupons for recycling tires have gone to FletcherPrinting, and she will pick them up when they are ready.She reported that prices for “I Shop Locally” bags printed with the BCC logo, andthe logo of a local sponsor range around $2.19/bag or $2,190.

for 1000 bags. Itwas agreed that this is too much to pay; Tom will check with CVPS to see if theyintend to award the grant BCC applied for; Barbara will do some more research;time is running out, so we may have to make decisions by email.

Tree Grant Update –

John Hanzas is still trying to get Dave Wilcox to come andapprove the planting sites; until that happens, we will not receive the 2

½ of thetree-planting grant.

Public Comment on storm water provisions for Bradford Square.

VT ANR is seeking public comment on Bradford Square’s application for a stormwater permit. Documents were reviewed, but resulted in more questions thananswers. Alex Nuti-deBiasi and Nancy, Bradford’s reps on the Upper Valley Committee of the ConnRiver Joint Commissions, will do more research tomorrow and prepare a writtencomment.

Next meeting –Due to a conflict, the next meeting will not be held on Sept. 16

, asscheduled.Members will be polled about meeting on September 15

, instead.

Respectfully submitted,Nancy Jones, for Dick Bolander