Town of Mansfield
Four-Corners Sewer Planning Advisory Committee
Minutes of the Meeting – May 5, 2009
Present: Nesbitt (chair), Plante, Ferrigno, Girard, Hultgren
The meeting was called to order by chair Nesbitt at 7:10 PM.
The minutes of March 10th and April 7th were approved on a motion by Ferrigno/Girard.
The bill summary sheet showing the status of the 4 Corners sewer bill in the CT Legislature was circulated showing that it had passed the House and was on the Senate Calendar. The grant requests submitted to Senator Dodd and Congressman Courtney were also circulated.
Hultgren reported that the property survey work had begun with deed research and planning, but that no maps had been created yet for the design. Staff is working on this and the expansion of the service area boundaries, with an eye to wetland impacts and topography.
A summary of the parcels in 3 different areas that the service area could be expanded to include was circulated and discussed. Staff is working on showing what the effect of adding these parcels to the properties in the service area would be on the property assessments. To do this, costs of additional piping to add these areas has to be estimated so that the total project cost is revised. Staff should have this analysis completed in a couple of weeks. The committee asked that the 4 parcels on Route 44 east of the service area boundary be included as well. After these results are reviewed, the committee will talk with the Director of Planning and then PZC regarding the recommended changes to the service area boundaries.
Hultgren passed out the revised fiscal impact analysis summary. He said that the spreadsheet had now been reviewed by both the Planner and Assessor and was good to go with the qualification that it used for a “guide”, and was not a guarantee that the anticipated development will actually take place. Committee members accepted the study and were not in favor of hiring a fiscal impact professional to further refine it.
The planned public meeting to present the project to date was discussed and June 9th was agreed upon as the date. The committee will meet next on May 27th to prepare for this presentation. Topics for the committee meeting will include the presentation and its invitations as well as press releases to the area newspapers. Nesbitt and Hultgren will work to update and fortify the project’s information on the Town’s website. Hultgren will put the current power point presentation on the Town’s FTP server so that committee members can down load it.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Lon Hultgren
Director of Public Works
cc: Committee members, Town Clerk, Grant Meitzler, Greg Padick