Coordinator Report October 11, 2012 State Senator Stan Rosenberg is meeting with the Selectboard Monday evening. He is getting Warwick in his redrawn district and is running unopposed. He serves as President Pro-tem of the MA Senate which makes him high up in the leadership. As a way to organize Warwick's issues and priorities to present to the Senator, I re-visited our most recent web published project list which is about two years old and which lists our priorities and over which I note a great deal of progress. Rather than rank the considerable number of projects, we categorized them as priority 1, 2, and 3. The community identified 14 priority 1 projects. The unmet number 1 priorities have to do with redevelopment of the General Store, elder housing (we said congregate and I wonder if we meant it), a new animal shelter, and new public safety building. The latter is being addressed slowly as a self-help measure. Significantly, three years after adopting this list we have either accomplished or made significant progress on fully half the tier 1 tasks, including: getting dwellings up to code, which was accomplished assisted by a recent CDBG Housing Rehab Funding; Town Hall storm window replacement which is accomplished and repair of sash which is funded and continuing to be accomplished; weatherization of Town buildings; repair of the WCS sprinkler system; solar on town buildings with the Town Hall array and alternate energy development being done with Seaboard Solar. In addition, in combination with MBI funding and reinvested broadband enterprise revenue, we have adequate working capital for the broadband system to finance customer premises equipment and to meet a second goal of increasing broadband coverage and speed. Of tier 2 priorities we accomplished five of 29 tasks including acquisition of the Moores Pond beach; updating the open space plan; demolition of the old school; replacement of the Town's back-hoe; just implemented security cameras at the historical society; and have come close on the goal to develop municipally owned photovoltaic with the Seaboard solar contract. One striking fail to date of tier 2 priorities is implementation of cell phone coverage in Town. We are making inroads with Internet appliances attached to our broadband system. And the Town has begun discussion with Vanu.com and CoverageCo.com with respect to implementing the system they are building in VT which utilizes Internet voice over IP with pole top rather than tower located mini cell infrastructure. Mr. Bose reports that in late November they will be able to begin to look in depth at our needs and those of similar Western MA communities. We also advanced the goal of more conservation restrictions to preserve land with the Jay and Manring CRs thanks to State funding, the work of Mt. Grace Land Trust and the landowners. We have an ongoing list of rolling stock replacement which is fire engines to highway equipment. We run a '57 Dodge engine which may be the oldest front line equipment in service in the state and one of our heavy highway trucks will need to be replaced soon thought he department has extended its life past our planned retirement date with repairs, attention to maintenance and utilizing smaller trucks when appropriate. We will meet that need for a new heavy truck in part with Chapter 90 funds which is not how we have spent this grant for some time, but something the board and the department agreed to at the time of the previous heavy truck's purchase about five years ago. Finally in tier 3 we are three months away from making our final payment on the paper compactor at the solid waste transfer station. We are nearing the one year anniversary of our application to DCR for the permit to add 4 Internet radios to the 15 already on the H frame tower. I pray this is the meeting at which we will have a contract to sign. Verizon is not accomplishing much that they have promised. The Police were just paid for their invoices submitted in March, six months ago. Seven poles they agreed to move haven't been. Tim circumvented them from cutting new pavement so they will instead attach to existing poles instead of staying underground. G4S has made payments for 123 Middle Mile police detail work and have implemented a new payment regimen. MBI is on top of this. The 123 middle mile fiber and the cable to hold it up are being installed on Route 78. I heard from one resident during the week with respect to discussion of an ordinance regulating where sex offenders may live in town. Michael Carey is working on implementing IP based cameras to surveil the historic society building. I have begun fundraising for the 250th and to support striking the commemorative medal. Letters went out from the Selectboard to the youth involved in the fireman's muster and in farming activities at the Franklin Co. Fair. I am working on a tribute in the PVRS yearbook to this year's Warwick graduating seniors. Once of the inverters on the solar array at Town Hall is bad and being replaced this next week. The Adams Farm / Pequoig Solar project in Athol got planning board approval and will be breaking ground soon. We will get invited to the commissioning. I met with Vanu Bose regarding bringing cell phone coverage to Town. We need to follow up on the needed to signage on the bridge on the Jay recreation trail in North Warwick. I spoke with Mary W regarding this. George R worked some extra hours making the transfer station ready for its annual inspection.