Town of Groton
Meeting Notice
Town Clerk
173 Main Street
Groton, MA 01450
(978) 448-1100
Greenway Committee Meeting
Wednesday, September 5 2012 at 7:00 AM
Town Hall: First Floor Meeting Room, 173 Main Street Groton, MA
This meeting was posted Thursday, August 30 2012 at 2:44 PM
Agenda
1. Fitch's Bridge:
• review proposed warrant article and explanation of warrant article for October Town Meeting.
• plan to appear before the BOS/Finance Committee on September 10th re: proposed warrant article.
• send letter eliciting support of bridge replacement to town groups and broader Groton community members.
• incorporate recent spate of bridge design input from equestrians, disability community and other interested parties.
• continue to plan for bridge standards (possibly ASHTO pedestrian bridge standards) and permitting.
• plan to meet with Historical Commission re: bridge removal and documentation.
• plan to meet with Finance Committee later in September re: upcoming warrant articles involving proposed expenditures.
• discuss design build and note qualifications of various bridge contractors in the area who might be capable of doing this work.
• attempt to gather documentation from similar projects in Commonwealth to be used to inform our contracts, engineering and design.
• begin to plan of October Town Meeting presentation. Need visuals for audience, possibly a Powerpoint presentation?
VOTES MAY BE TAKEN.
2. Chicopee Row land purchase: decide whether to support Con Com request to CPC to pay $25,000 toward the cost of large land purchase on Chicopee Row (across from Williams Barn).
VOTES MAY BE TAKEN.
The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of the topics that will have been discussed. Not all topics listed may in fact be discussed, and other topics not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.