Coordinator Report 
August 4, 2011

More than twenty townspeople attended the community meeting on the
Department of Conservation and Recreation's forest zone proposal and
achieved a strong consensus to ask DCR to flip their designations and
make the southern part of Town reserves and manage the better forest
land to the north side of town. At that meeting all boards had a quorum
so my take is chairs may sign the document Ted produced since it is
based on that consensus.

Police chief Shoemaker has completed his six months initial appointment.
I request the board reappoint him for a term through June 30, 2014 which
is just shy of three years and will coincide with other three year
appointments.

Adam Holloway resigned from the police department. I conducted an exit
interview in which he told me he has differences with the direction the
department is taking.

We have two posted hearings scheduled as part of this meeting. They all
occur within the Selectboard meeting. We should stop whatever we have
going and go to the hearing matter on time. No need to adjourn and
reconvene. By the time we get to the dog hearing we can announce whether
we will conduct any other business at the conclusion of the hearing so
those in attendance who don't want to watch the dog hearing can leave
knowing all they are missing is the hearing.

We are holding a pole hearing at 7 p.m. on four poles to serve Michael
Humphries' new home site on Wendell Rd. Tim had some problems with the
proposed pole locations which the utilities have addressed by moving the
poles back from the edge of the road allowing for more set back.  We
don't want to hold up the landowner but we should also request the
utility get on with other stalled work around town.

A nuisance dog hearing is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. This is contingent upon
our getting return of service dated by 7:30 p.m. August 4, 2011 to meet
the 48 hour public notice requirement. I wasn't able to give our
constable much lead time.  A copy of hearing procedures based on Town of
Orange's is attached for your consultation. The order of notice and
summons and the complaint are attached as well and were reviewed by our
counsel. The board could order the dog out of our town, order it
destroyed or take other action.

We have had another incident of security break down at WCS which police
and the district administration are addressing.

I have been attending the Green Grant meetings at the district and
paying attention to the Pioneer boiler project. Warwick's share is
budgeted at $46k of which 56% is grant reimbursed. Our share of the
project is 10% of capital budget items. Bernardston is having a STM on
18 August. The matter must pass all four member towns. If it passes
there we will schedule our meeting to closely follow.

I submitted what I believe is a complete flood insurance application to
FEMA and DCR. Ted, Tim, FRCOG staff Pat and Ryan and others were of
significant assistance.

I worked with Larry Carey to create and publish the OHD schedule of
events which has three days of events and activities. We printed it in
house for the newsletter.

Highway Department will prune branches of trees I have marked on the
"common" and fell and remove the dying spruce tree and two stumps. Tim
got dig-safe clearance. I consulted Chuck Lisowsky who recommended a
hard maple and Dawn Redwood for replanting. I chose trees at Noels
Nursery which I want to have planted before OHD. We will dedicate the
sugar maple to Les Goodman and rededicate the softwood to Mary Francis
in whose memory the spruce was planted many years ago by Oscar Ohlson.

We had additional access points installed on the cell tower to improve
our capacity and quality of service. The units came from reusing the
ones that had been on Mt Grace and others from inventory. This will give
us twelve town-wide running at 900 MHz.

Donny Mathews got the road work done on the access road. We spread 60+
yards of stone, replaced nine or more culverts, graded the road, and
installed numerous water bars. The total bill was $3,500 and brings us
to current on our "in-kind" account with DCR for tower "rental".

I got the hydraulic cylinder on the paper compactor replaced under
warranty. Repairmen are coming back to change the oil and will change it
again in the fall to cure some water pollution of the fluid. DEP gave
the Town permission to test the landfill monitoring wells every other
year instead of annually. This will save about $3k every other year. I
pushed the BOH to increase fees on construction debris and they declined
making a very token increase from $50 to $60 instead of the $75 / yard I
requested. My price would still have lost us money. This failure signs
us up for $5,000 annual loss at this cost center. It was a unanimous
decision by the BOH which they will revisit in January. This reminds me
of the ponderously slow rate of change on the matter of bag price
increases which took the BOH six or more months to accomplish. At the
request of BOH I entered into an agreement with a recycler who will take
our electronic scrap and many other items at no charge. BOH decided not
to zero out the fees we collect on these items as we still have to
handle them, store and load. I applaud that decision. This source will
take TVs and CRTs, anything with a battery or a power cord and clean
plastics too large for our other plastic recycling.

Webmaster Ed Lemon added Wetland Notice of Intent and Well Permit
Application to the town website at my request.