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Sidewalk Committee Meeting Minutes November 5, 2007 Present: Marianne Lazarus, Olga Guttag, Meg Lotz, Francine Stieglitz, Jeanne Krieger, Richard Canale, Judy Crocker, Lucy Fletcher-Jones, Sue Ellen Briggs and Chairman Jerry Van Hook The minutes of the October meeting were approved. Jeanne will research the process of how a sidewalk moves forward from an idea to an actual paved path. Olga met with the Fiske Condominium assoc. Parents are diving into the Fiske Condo development to drop off children in the morning. Parents are also parking there on private property, sometimes blocking driveways and going to the school. Fiske Condo put up a fence to reduce foot traffic and car traffic in the area. Olga will be working with the Fiske PTA to educate parents on how to be safe drivers and conscientious in their parking habits. This is a problem in other neighborhoods also. Olga will contact the architect working on the access to Fiske school and ask him to contact the disability commission to ask for a representative to work on and review access to the school. The path from Wisteria Lane to the Fiske School was discussed next. Olga is working on the process of moving the easement. She will approach the owners of the property. Judy reported on the situation at several of the schools. At Harrington school the cross signal at the intersection of Maple and Lowell St needs to be longer. A parent at Harrington has emailed everyone to try to get this addressed. Judy brings it up here to alert everyone to this need. At Estabrook School the buses are dropping off students on Robinson Rd behind the school. This procedure will not work when snow or ice is on the road because of the steep grade of the road. The traffic pattern is being reviewed here. The traffic patterns at several schools are a problem. Clarke and Estabrook have had near misses. Judy would like to have a meeting of school principals, the superintendent, and the police to discuss traffic patterns and issues. Car counts at the elementary schools in the first week of October were: 110 cars at Harrington 120 cars at Bowman, Bridge and Hastings schools 190 cars at Estabrook Fiske did not do car counts. Their SRTS program has dissolved. Judy also reported that repair of the bridge connecting Clarke school to their fields is being discussed. Judy had posters and tally sheets ready for the next walk day November 7. Students will receive a yellow feather for riding the bus and a red feather for walking. These feathers will decorate a large turkey. There are more cars at the schools and fewer buses this year. Jerry is hopeful that next year communication and implementation of the busing program will be better.