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Sidewalk Committee Meeting Minutes Monday July 9, 2007 11AM Attendance: Lucy Fletcher-Jones, Wayne Brooks, Marianne Lazarus, Jerry Van Hook, Sue Ellen Briggs, Jane Kalinski, Laura Cecere, and Sara Chamberlain Excused: Jeanne Krieger is at another meeting. Francine Stieglitz cannot attend today. Judy Crocker, Meg Lotz and Olga Guttag are out of town. th The first item of business was to approve the June 4 minutes and these were approved unanimously. The second item was the discussion of the traffic flow patterns for drop off and pick up at Hastings Elementary School. Jane Kalinski, Hastings SR2S, brought a large poster board that clearly showed the school, surrounding streets, placement of sidewalks and the traffic patterns currently in place. Currently at drop off and pick up times traffic must come into the school from Massachusetts Ave. and file past the school. From here school traffic can go straight on Wilson Rd. or left onto Roosevelt Rd. in the easterly direction. Roosevelt Rd is a small residential street without sidewalks that supports heavy traffic, particularly in the morning and afternoon rush hours and at school release time. Jane reported that most of the school traffic goes onto Roosevelt Rd in an easterly direction. Additionally in the morning Roosevelt Rd. is a cut through for commuters accessing Route 95. They are traveling westerly on Roosevelt from School St to Marrett Rd. Students walking to school from neighborhoods east of School St. would use Roosevelt Rd. After much discussion on this issue and possible solutions a motion was unanimously passed for Wayne Brooks of the DPW to look into the right of way on Roosevelt Rd for a sidewalk. Another motion was passed unanimously stating that the Sidewalk Committee supports Safe Routes to School at Hastings Elementary School. We also support their request to the Traffic Safety Advisory Committee to make Roosevelt Rd one way during pick up and drop off times at the school. Wayne Brooks reported on the schedule for crosswalk painting. DPW paints every crosswalk every year. In general the center and parade route is painted before Patriot’s Day. The crosswalks in school zones are painted before the opening of school. Laura Cecere has looked at the sidewalk priority spreadsheets from two elementary school district, Fiske and Bowman. From this data she came up with a list of major roads in these areas that require sidewalks. See the attached document. Sara Chamberlain will look into prioritizing streets in the Bridge district. Jane will do the same for the Hastings district. Stewart Kennedy has contacted two young families in the Estabrook area about prioritizing sidewalk needs in that district. Laura will continue to work on prioritization, but it was agreed that it would be best to wait for more complete data from the whole town.