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Committee presses for follow-up on dinghy-management recommendations after memo received little response
Summary
A committee member said a January 20 memo with dinghy-management recommendations was circulated to staff and select-board leaders but received little acknowledgement; the group discussed re-submitting proposals and involving the harbormaster and select board in next steps.
A committee member told the Harbor Committee on June 16 that a January 20 memo outlining dinghy-management recommendations — including permit revisions and fee changes — was circulated to staff, the harbormaster and select-board leadership but had not received acknowledgement or substantive follow-up.
Members expressed frustration that recommendations had not been incorporated into the published harbor fee schedule. The chair and others said the implementation or enforcement of some dinghy-management decisions falls to the harbormaster as operational policy rather than to the select board, and recommended re-engaging both harbormaster and the incoming select board to advance the proposals.
The committee discussed prior outreach (surveys and compiled data) and agreed to try again to bring the memo and recommendations to the attention of staff and the new select board, or to ask the harbormaster to implement agreed operational measures where appropriate. No formal action was taken; the discussion was a direction to re-submit materials and request response from town staff and select-board leadership.
The committee also noted that larger infrastructure fixes (for example, adding floats at Steamboat Landing) were not funded in the current budget and may require a broader planning approach rather than incremental additions.
