MEETING LOCATION: 1427R Water Street, Fitchburg, MA 01420

TUESDAY, August 25, 2015, 7:00 PM

At 6:30 Dinner will be Available to Commissioners
Orientation will be Continued for New and Not-So-New Commissioners

AGENDA

7:00 PM OPEN MEETING AND INTRODUCTIONS

7:05 PM APPROVAL OF THE JULY 28, 2015 MEETING MINUTES

7:10 PM TREASURER’S REPORT
7:15 PM PEER-TO-PEER TRAINING FOR PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS AND CHIEF ELECTED
OFFICIALS IN THE REGION
Subjects to be Reviewed and Discussed will Include Planning Board operations,
Community, Economic, and Housing Development, and the Vacant Homes Crisis
7:45 PM ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
• Reports and Requested Resolutions of MRPC Corporate Guarantees for Borrowing of Funds by MEC, Inc. for Receivership Projects in Athol and New Affordable Home Construction in Ashburnham
• Personnel Regulations – Reinstatement Requested for Reversal of Unintentional Deletion of Narrative to Holiday Policy
• MRPC Meeting Attendance Survey
• Executive Director Announcements Including Tablet Training for Commissioners and Staff to be held in September 2015, New Organizational Chart, Updated Contact Information and Other Administrative Matters

8:15 PM STATUS REPORTS – PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN ORDER OF DEPARTMENTS REFLECTING
NEW ORGANIZATIONAL CHART DISCUSSED ABOVE
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Planning and Development
o Community Development and Housing
o Comprehensive Planning
• Transit
• Transportation
8:45PM ADJOURNMENT

All Commissioners are requested to attend this meeting. Should a quorum of Commissioners not be available for a full Commission meeting, then the MRPC Executive Committee may meet on behalf of the Planning Commission at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 25, 2015. This meeting will be recorded by a Digital Voice Recording device.

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.