Coordinator Report 
November 29, 2010

The meeting of PVRS district stakeholders hosted by Bernardston
Selectboard and Finance Committee scheduled for tomorrow evening, Nov.
30 has been postponed until Dec. 13 @ 6:30 pm per a phone message from
Virginia Button of Bernardston Selectboard.

Planning Board wants to give up on the Chapter 40b amendment project. It
sought to exempt towns with much state-owned land from the potential of
comprehensive permits. A wider ballot question to scrap the law failed
on November 2. Failed even in Sunderland where a project looms. Planning
board is looking for a vote by the Selectboard to abandon the project.

Would the Selectboard be inclined to support Warwick's adoption of the
"Stretch Code" by placing it on the Special Town Meeting Warrant
scheduled for Feb. 7, 2010?

Highway department spent a few days clearing land for the Cemetery
Commission.  They were instructed by Commissioners that the wood was of
no value to cemetery operations and that folks could take it away. 
After work, some of the employees may have done so. A resident noted
this happening and contacted me. I checked with Mr. Toth who confirmed
that the Commission just wants the wood taken away. We have a policy
that merchantable wood generated by the Highway Dept. be transferred to
a site for eventual sale or disposition. I have failed to establish that
place. A spot in the field behind the Trinitarian church is available
and I have not finalized the arrangement. Tim was away on the day in
question. I will follow-up on the designated site as we are coming to
the time of year where this type of work becomes commonplace.

Patricia has suggested that the Selectboard on behalf of the town sign
on to MASSPIRG's 21st Century Transportation Principles. There are three
principles which are: 1. Invest in modern public transit; 2. Fix our
roads and bridges instead of doing massive new projects; and 3. Focus on
outcomes that improve safety, reduce dependence on oil, and promote
sustainability.

Tom Wyatt presented the board with a petition sponsored by Safe and
Green regarding the closure and decommissioning of VT Yankee nuclear
power plant and asked the Selectboard to consider signing on to a letter
that asks that: 1. Decommissioning and site clean up workers be hired
from those who lose their jobs operating or working at the plant.  2.
That residents be warned of hazardous circumstances and 3. That the
environment be protected.

Is the board open to asking the Town to adopt a by-law with respect to
unfenced or otherwise loose animals? This is at the request of the
police department and if desired I will gather some sample by-laws from
other municipalities and report back.

We have the reimbursement documents for the box culvert repair at
Moore's Pond ready for your signature and submission to Mass Highways.

I hoped to have a consulting contract for WCS energy evaluation
available for approval but we are not ready to recommend for a few more
days.  I suggest, based on the Town Meeting's deferral to the committee
that the board authorize the Building and Energy committee to recommend
the vendor(s) and empower me as coordinator / procurement officer to
execute the contract.  It would not exceed $10,000.

We got a suggestion from a resident that the customer premises equipment
(CPE) grant funds should be used to extend the signal to homes not
getting service. This would be infrastructure and not CPE. I note that
we expect to get an engineering report in next few weeks for a planned
expansion of infrastructure on Mt Grace that is a critical component to
providing Internet to repeater base stations. We have found that we
can't use the distribution frequency to provide backhaul. It causes
interference with already installed customers. The 2.4 GHz equipment on
which we are having tower structural engineering done will provide the
needed connection to additional distribution infrastructure. If we do
nothing by way of investment in additional capacity we will have the
system paid for by the end of this December. With this new build-out we
will still pay for all the borrowing and additional investment well
within the three year window of the borrowing authorization / launch
date.