HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-12-10Draft Minutes
Note: Items may be added to or removed from this agenda as needs and circumstances dictate.
Town of Dryden Conservation Board
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Dryden Town Hall
93 East Main Street, Dryden, NY 13053
1. Call to order (7:00 p.m.) – C. Smith
Present: Richmond, Beck, Smith, Ryan, Sherman, Munkenbeck
Absent: Prentiss, Bissen, Schutt
Liaison: Weinstein (Planning Board)
Ex officio: Nicholson (Planning Department), Belcher (Planning Department)
2. Completion of Record of Attendance by Members and Observers
Attendance was passed around amongst the board members.
3. Review and approval of minutes from 12 November 2013 Meeting
Smith removed Joseph Osmeloski’s name and added Gian Dodici, on line 78.
Weinstein suggested removing the sentence: “This applies to commercial development as
well”, on lines 47 and 48.
Richmond requested changing “accusation” to “acquisition”, on line 101.
Beck suggested adding “a document prepared from molding an existing documents” to
the end on line 83.
4. Citizens’ privilege (5 minutes, or less per person, please)
Gian Dodici introduced himself to the Board members. He’s lived in Dryden for about 7
years.
The Board members introduced themselves to Dodici.
5. Additions to agenda?
No additions
6. Reports and Updates (briefly, 3-5 minutes please)
a. Town Board – Linda Lavine
No report.
b. Town Planning Board – David Weinstein
Weinstein reported that the Town Board is doing a review of the objectives that are in
the Comprehensive Plan, to see if they have addressed tools for accomplishing the
objectives. There are 75 objectives. The Planning Board has a draft of what their
categorizations of the objectives are. Once they approve the categorization, Weinstein
would like to send out the 75 objectives, with the Planning Board’s designation, so
the Conservation Board can have a discussion about whether they agree with the
Planning Board’s judgment. This evaluation is preliminary to the Town Board
deciding if there is a sufficient reason to update the Comprehensive Plan.
Weinstein commented that the second part of this is to see what parts of sustainability
have never made it into the Comprehensive Plan and would need to be added.
Nicholson explained that the next step would be to put the two pieces together to have
this big picture of what’s missing, what’s been done and how it all works together.
From there, they will develop a proposal, which is the recommendation of how they
would move forward.
c. Tompkins County EMC – Steve Bissen
No report.
d. Town Board Agriculture Advisory Committee – Craig Schutt
Nicholson explained that she is currently working on a Farmland Protection Plan
Grant that will be submitted by the first of the year.
The Ag Committe meets tomorrow at 7 p.m.
e. Other Town Boards and Commissions – Jane Nicholson
No report.
7. Old business
a. Future meeting of multiple town boards and commissions – J. Nicholson
Nicholson commented that the meeting of multiple town boards and commissions
will probably take place in February.
b. Status of membership recommendations to Town Board – C. Smith
Smith comments that it is expected that the Town Board will act on the Conversation
Board’s recommendation of board members, on January 2nd, 2014.
8. New business
a. EMC Representation – Steve Bissen
No report.
Smith makes a motion that the Conservation Board recommends to the Town Board,
that Steve Bissen continues as the Towns representative of the County Environmental
Management Council.
Munkenbeck seconds the motion.
All in favor.
b. Defining Open Space – Group Discussion (See next 2 pages.)
Smith informed the Board that Prentiss recommended deleting the word “intensively”
in the first sentence.
Sherman recommended deleting “undeveloped costal and estuarine lands”.
Munkenbeck recommended including upper air space into the definition.
Beck suggested adding skies into the definition, making the sew sentence: It also
includes skies and water bodies such as lakes and bays. Smith suggested adding “e.g.
incident light”, after the word “skies”.
Nicholson recommended adding trails to the definition and editing the sentence: “A
vacant lot or a small marsh can be open space in a big city” to “A vacant lot or a
small marsh can be open space in a village, hamlet or town wide.” Richmond
suggested including a stream corridor to the sentence.
Nicholson recommended adding a sentence about above and below ground resources
such as, aquifers. Munkenbeck suggested saying aquifer recharge areas, instead of
below ground.
Smith recommended replacing “marsh” with “wetland”.
The Board will further discuss the definition again in January.
c. Plans for January 2014 Meeting – C. Smith
Smith explained that the Town Board report and the Open Space definition will be on
the agenda for the January meeting. He also explained that there will be a nomination
for the chair of the Conservation Board, which will then be recommended to the
Town Board. He informed the Board that he will not be running for chair this year.
9. Adjourn
Richmond makes a motion to adjourn a meeting.
Ryan seconds the motion.
All in favor.
Recorded and submitted by Anna Belcher, Planning Department Intern