HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-07-26Town of Dryden
Conservation Board Meeting Minutes
• July 26, 2011,
Members Present: Craig S., Stan M., Bard P., Bob B., Nancy M., Milo R., Steve B.
Additional Staff Present: Jane Nicholson
Absent: Peter D.
• Agenda:
1. Agenda - Additions, deletions, adjustments.
2. EMC Update.
3. Old Business
CB Bylaws
Aquifer protection Plan
Open Space Plan - focusing on Goals and Objectives, and moving on to Inventory
4. Town Board Update -This is an opportunity for the Town Board liaison and/or the Town Supervisor or other Town Board
members to address the Conservation Board,
5. New Business: none noted
Call to order: Nancy Munkenbeck, 7:40
-- Additions, deletions, adjustments
— Agriculture Inventory Update
Craig -- update from Katie, intern on the agricultural report; she's doing a review of AEM Tier 1 and Tier 2, focusing
closely on Dryden - specific questions (similar to Ithaca Plan); review of the questionnaire and process
Milo —have to ensure that we're not there to increase their taxes; Craig— ensured that this would be totally anonymous
and compiled anonymously I
Nancy —how to identify a farm that has no name /address?
- -No Town Supervisor Update
—EMC Update (Environmental Management Council- Tompkins County) p
- -Nancy to send; Ithaca College Sustainability Plan K
® —CB Bylaws K
- -Still in progress; Adjunct Position —to be more officially notified
- -Ag advisory board?
-- Aquifer Protection Plan
- -Check with Dan about current plan
- -Open Space Plan
- -Open Space Inventory
-- relate to comp. plan; guide future through recommendations
-- should take into account the consensus on some aspects
-- question of purpose, guiding part of the plan; use this for the website
—State of NY Open Space Inventory—why did they do that? Plan for land acquisition /use of the information
- step -down process, town's have version of that
-- establish zoning law that we can move forward with
-- outdoor recreation as a subcomponent, versus in the title "Open Space and Recreation Plan"
-- guiding future development to protect open space
-- instead of systems, rather than OS &P, development systems approach title that CB derives from which things
would be included into this systems development approach
-- systematic approach be included in Comp Plan update
- -OSP that could help inform the Cornp Plan system
- -Sce Hammond Hill or Twin Sheds State Forest Plan
• — Threc Plans —Draft Open Space, Drab Conservation, Draft Nawral Recreation
Nancy: Meeting Adjourned at 8:45PM