10. PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
- a. Town Attorney Mark Cerel Presentation
remote participation must be of "unreasonable nature"
- Open Meeting Law, Public Records, Public Hearings, and Ethics Presentation
majority need to be present, all votes via role call
phone calls excluded from record keeping (as no technology can currently provide sufficient coverage)
segregate town from personal business
Ethics
criminal statue
if you ask the ethics office for adivce, they can render a decision and assuming all facts are stated, it can be a safe harbor
if after the fact someone comes up with a incident, and you had not pre notified, then the Ethics commission acts as an investigatory body
applies to individual and ti immediate family members, a fairly broad group
conversation between individual and Ethics commission are confidential
conversation between Mark and individual are not necessarily
mandatory online training
self identify early on if a conflict, or potential
https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/mai/files/10a._presentations_discussions_cerel.pdf
- b. Stormwater Presentation and Discussion
https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/mai/files/town_administrator_introduction_memo.pdf
- i. Town Administrator Introduction Memo
- ii. Public Works PowerPoint Presentation
https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/mai/files/public_works_powerpoint_presentation.pdf
https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/mai/files/stormwater_management_plan.pdf
- iii. Stormwater Management Plan (393 Page document; 8MB PDF)
https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/mai/files/stormwater_brochures_history.pdf
- iv. Stormwater Brochures History
suit against EPA in mediation right now, not much can be said about it
no other community outside of Boston has gotten more grant money than Franklin
study was funded in 2007 to develop the utility
$800K over and above standard DPW budget required to meet EPA permit for storm water management
10 million sq ft of impervious coverage added since 2011; an indicator of the growth we have
"I suggested that we should rake the state forest, and the EPA liked that"
Q what is noncompliance with the EPA?
still early yet, more consent decrees now; usually need to do it faster than it had been planned for; only 2nd year of the new permit
Q - why us?
it is based upon the watershed, only 2% goes off to the Blackstone, 98% goers to the Charles
a little bit every year helps, the memo outlines other communities implementing this as well.
well or septic doesn't matter for this new utility fee
Q - road and sidewalk reduction was also in regards to reducing the impervious coverage, yes we are doing that
we should be focusing on getting with other communities (i.e. Cambridge) to work out the details of cross credits
Dellorco - all the rivers in MA are polluted, they built factories on them, that the problem
send out the bill with $0, that is the best way to start the education; a great way to get the attention; we started in 2007, now it is 2019
I'd rather get ahead of the EPA and a consent order. Well it is a bill but it is zero, why? it is a start
the toxic bloom has only happened once in four years, how do we sell that?
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