Agricultural Commission Minutes
Meeting date:
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
- Town of Bolton Agricultural Commission
- Meeting Minutes
- Date: 15 November 2011
- AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION
- www.boltonag.com
- 63 Main Street
- 978 779-2297 or 779-3308
- Barbara Parente 779-6303 bparente@comcast.net Term Exp 6/30/2012
- Betsy Taylor-Kennedy 779-5213 betsy@taylor-kennedy.com Term Exp 6/30/2012
- Richard Pelletier 779-5521 email@nashobawinery.com Term Exp 6/30/2013
- Eric Schartner 779-0212 schartnerfarm@verizon.net Term Exp 6/30/2013
- Robyn Roberts 779-8930 wolfrunfarm@comcast.net Term Exp 6/30/2014
- A meeting of the Bolton Agricultural Commission was held on 15 November, 2011 at Town Hall. The meeting
- was called to order at 7:48 pm. Commission members in attendance: Barbara Parente, Betsy Taylor-Kennedy,
- Richard Pelletier. Absent: Eric Schartner, Robyn Roberts
- The October 2011 minutes were approved and submitted.
- Reports from liaisons to Town Boards/Commissions
- ·
- Board of Health (OPEN)
- · Planning Board (Schartner) no report
- · Board of Selectmen (Parente): no report
- · Conservation Commission (Pelletier): no report
- · Conservation Trust (Taylor-Kennedy): no report
- Complaints/Requests for Site Visits
- ·
- Storbeck/Ashe: Rich and Robin visited Sue Storbeck’s yard. There was little or no manure in
- evidence. The dumpster was out for repair. It was a “warmish” fall day with a breeze across the yard.
- The condition did not match Martha Ashe’s description.
- · Coolidge/Kashuba: Rich called Tom Kashuba and asked that submit the information about the nature
- of his complaint in writing to the AgCom. Rich couldn’t contact Bob Coolidge. The concern is about
- the ancillary use of a sawmill as an agricultural use.
- Appointments
- ·
- None
- New Business
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- Open Space Plan: more discussion in December. Members to review the Open Space Plan section 8,
- Goals and Objectives, sent out by Carol Gumbart.
- · FY2013 Budget: (due November 17) Using level funding to match last year ($1746), amounts were
- allotted as follows:
- Bolton Fair $800, Spring Ag Sale $300, Farmers’ Dinner $300, Postage $100 (mailing to new
- residents), Awareness Activities (map, website, stickers, brochures) $246
- TOTAL $1746
- Betsy to submit budget info to Pam Powell by Nov. 17.
- Old Business
- 1.
- Fall Ag Sale and Taste of the Ma(i)ze were snowed out.
- 2. Multi-town Farmers’ Meeting: update postponed to December. (Eric)
- 3. Emergency Management: update postponed to December. (Robyn)
- 4. Wayfinding Grant: members to review consultant’s report. Signage is planned for 5 major farms.
- May want to include Pleasant Garden Daylilies (Sallyann King) since she uses (seasonal) signage.
- Possibly Jo Barb Farms?
- 5. AgCom Website: Rich has obtained administrative access to the website from Joe Kovacs. The
- minutes preparer should send a copy of minutes (updated with any corrections made at meetings) to
- Barbara to be made into .pdfs for posting on the website.
- Future Meetings/Events
- ·
- Next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 20 December, 2011 at 7:30 pm at Town Hall
- · Multi-town Farmers’ Meeting: TBD 2012
- · Spring Ag Sale: TBD 2012
- · Taste of Bolton: TBD 2012
- The meeting was adjourned at 8:29 pm.