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229 Main Street task force approves final reuse report, clears minor edits and readies Select Board briefing
Summary
The 229 Main Street Advisory Task Force voted to approve its final reuse report with minor formatting and clarifying edits, authorized posting the executive summary in the Select Board packet for Dec. 16, and recommended an evening public hearing in early February; release timing of two executive-session minutes was left to the Select Board.
Court Booth, chair of the 229 Main Street Advisory Task Force, said the panel voted to approve its final reuse report and to authorize staff to make only minor typographical or formatting corrections before the document is delivered to the Select Board.
The vote, taken after members reviewed a redline with a wording clarification in the risk-assessment section and a handful of proofreading fixes, authorizes online posting of the report and submission of an executive-summary PDF for the Select Board packet for the Dec. 16 briefing. Booth said the release timing for two previously approved executive-session minutes will be determined by the Select Board "at the time that the matter is concluded," per the motion approved by the group.
The clarification the task force adopted shortens a sentence in section 5 to make clear how the reasonable maximum exposure (RME) assumption was applied. Rich Haley, a task-force member, described the editorial change as necessary so readers would not mistake the report for asserting exposures above the RME during ordinary site use: "The resulting...the total assumed ingestion well above the RME," Haley said, referring to the phrasing the group agreed to truncate for clarity. Kurt, who joined the meeting late, noted technical difficulties but expressed support for the approach: "I did, sorry for being late, Zoom was uncooperative, but I'll give an eye to that."
Members also flagged two typographical fixes (the transcript shows one corrected phrase from a draft as "subsistence" rather than the earlier wording) and asked staff to handle pagination and hyperlinks for the online version so readers can jump to appendices and figures. The chair said Donna completed pagination and the proofing and that staff will post the full report online and include the five-page executive summary in the Select Board packet so the meeting packet is not excessively long.
The task force discussed next steps and public outreach. It recommended that the Select Board host a public hearing in the evening in early February (before the February school vacation) so residents can attend; the task force offered to attend and present briefly in support of its recommendations. Booth said he requested a five-minute slot for the Dec. 16 Select Board briefing and that Mary (staff) had offered seven minutes.
The task force approved the Nov. 12 meeting minutes earlier in the session and resolved logistical questions about final approvals, agreeing to finalize any remaining minute edits at or shortly before the public hearing rather than by informal email.
The meeting closed with thanks to contributors and staff for proofreading and formatting work. The task force’s report and executive summary will be posted online ahead of the Select Board meeting on Dec. 16; the Select Board will decide the timing for release of the two executive-session minutes and the date and format of the public hearing.
