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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-01-10 - CPC Town of Ulysses Comprehensive Plan Update Committee January 10, 2008 Approved June 16, 2008 Present : Sue Poelvoorde- Chair, Bob Brown, Heather Filiberto, Rod Hawkes, Sue Ritter, John Wertis . Elizabeth Thomas , David Tyler, Kimberly Baptiste - Bergmann Associates r Absent : Bob Weatherby Ms . Poelvoorde called the meeting to order at 7 : 14 p . m . She presented the minutes from the October 23 , 2007 and November 21 , 2007 meetings . She noted that the August 20, 2007, minutes still have not been approved and asked Ms . Peck to e-mail them to her again. She provided some content corrections to be made to Ms . Peck. Mr. Hawkes made the MOTION to approve the minutes October and November minutes . Ms . Ritter seconded the MOTION. The vote on the MOTION was unanimous, MINUTES APPROVED WITH CORRECTIONS . Ms . Poelvoorde provided an update on the Town ' s submission of a grant application to the New York State Agriculture and Markets office for financial assistance in preparing an agriculture and farmland protection plan. The application was submitted in mid-December. The Town' s application did not receive funding, but Ag and Markets was very encouraged by the response/submissions they received and are considering allocating additional funds for another round of awards in February. All indications are that we will receive funding in the next round. Ms. Poelvoorde noted that with Dave Kerness being elected to the Town Board the Comp Plan committee is down a member. Liz Thomas will continue to serve as our Town Board representative . The committee discussed potential individuals to consider. The Committee felt that bringing a new person on at this point in the process would be difficult. Ms . Poelvoorde suggested Roxanne Marino , former Town Board representative to the committee. Ms . Marino is very interested in continuing to be involved with the Comp Plan update. David Tyler made the MOTION to recommend to the Town Board that they appoint Roxanne Marino to the Comp Plan Update Committee . Mr. Hawkes seconded the MOTION. The vote on the MOTION was unanimous . Ms . Poelvoorde turned the meeting over to Kimberly Baptiste . Ms . Baptiste handed out two documents that will become appendices to the future updated plan - the existing conditions and town-wide survey summary. She went through both reports with the committee. She requested that committee members forward any changes to her by e-mail or mail . She went through a Powerpoint presentation that will be presented at the first public information session highlighting existing conditions and salient results from the survey. The committee discussed setting the first public information meeting. Dates the first week of February were discussed . The committee agreed on February 6`h . The committee agreed to try to have the first meeting at the Franziska Racker Center. Ms . Poelvoorde said she would contact the Center to check on the availability for February 6`h . She will e-mail and have Ms . Peck mail the information to Bob Brown and Bob Weatherby. Ms . Baptiste noted that with the tentative date set for the meeting, she will need edits to the existing conditions and survey documents by January 24`h Ms . Baptiste handed out an exercise for the committee members to begin to develop the Vision Statement for the updated comp plan . She asked committee members to work on this exercise before the next committee meeting. Members can e-mail or send their thoughts to her prior to the meeting as well . She noted there are three steps to the exercise — 1 ) Review the existing conditions report, community survey report and the SWOT summary; 2) Consider the five questions which include : Where would you like to see the Town in 10- 15 years? , How do you thin the Town will be different than today? , What characteristics of the Town do you hope to remain the same? , What community values should be factored into Town-wide decision making? , and Where do you see Ulysses place in the region? ; 3 ) Keeping the answers to the above questions in mind , create the vision statement for the Town of Ulysses. Comprehensive Plan 2 01 / 10/08 Ms . Poelvoorde requested if committee members wanted to meet on the regularly scheduled meeting date of January 22nd . The consensus of the group was to cancel the meeting since it was anticipated that the public information sharing session would be the beginning of February. With no further business, Ms Poelvoorde adjoined the meeting at 9 : 10 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Sue Poelvoorde Chair 1 •