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MEETING MINUTES Committee Name: Bicycle Advisory Committee Date, Time and Location of Meeting: November 13, 2008, 7 pm; Rm 111, Town Office Building Members Present: Peggy Enders (Chair), Stew Kennedy, Mike Tabaczynski, Abe Shenker (FoLB Chair), John Frey, Jerry Van Hook, Richard Canale (Planning Board Liaison), Laurel Carpenter, Marita Hartshorn. Others Present: Rich Spencer, Paolo Marinelli, Sam Shenker Members Absent: Hank Manz, (Selectmen’s Liaison), Sandra Shaw(Recreation), George Gagliardi. Minutes: Reviewed and approved October 9 meeting minutes. th Snow Plowing: Peggy reported on the November 10 Selectmen’s meeting, where Bikeway plowing was discussed once again and where Carl Valente asked for a response from LBAC with respect to the town’s continuing concerns about safety. The committee discussed a number of ideas that might improve wintertime safety on the Bikeway, including temporary bollards (large weighted barrels, orange cones), improving sight lines (removing bushes at intersections), and improving signage. We decided that the best course of action this winter is simply to ask the Selectmen for permission to plow the path this winter through volunteers and withdraw our request for use of town funds. The group agreed to request that the gates be opened for the winter and that the bollards be removed to allow the truck plow access to the Bikeway. We will request that a traffic barrel be placed in the center of the gap at gated intersections. We will pursue improved signage and sight lines. The Selectmen will discuss this issue again at their meeting on November 24; Abe Shenker agreed to prepare the presentation. Laurel Carpenter will assemble a group email list of people interested in Bikeway issues. Peggy and Stew reported that in a meeting with Dave Pinsonneault he said that beginning next spring the DPW (i.e., Dave Cannon) plans to remove all the gates permanently and replace them with a three bollard system -- each 5 feet apart -- that complies with federal standards. Jerry expressed some concerns about that plan, saying that he thought it not safe to remove the gates and asked how a three-bollard system was any safer than two bollards.