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Sidewalk Committee Monday January 7, 2008 Attended by: Jerry VanHook, John Davies, Lucy Fletcher-Jones, Judy Crocker, Jeanne Krieger, Sue Ellen Briggs, Richard Canale The minutes of the last meeting were not approved because we did not have a quorum present. Marianne Lazarus has officially resigned. Jerry will email Laura Cecere to ask her to come to meetings. Jerry received a question from a pedestrian and bus rider that works on Hartwell Ave asking if the town could snow plow the sidewalks in that area. The committee feels the businesses should be approached to remove snow so that their employees can get to work. Currently the businesses plow their parking lots for their driving employees so they should also clear their pathways for their walking employees. Physical obstacles to safe access of walkers to schools: In the Fiske district on Adams St. there is an area of the sidewalk that is overgrown. This is private property that has frontage on another road. Dave Pinsonnault of DPW is working on getting the homeowner to clean up the area. Jean Williams has filed a warrant to require snow removal from all sidewalks. Richard feels that this committee needs to come up with questions on this warrant for the TMMA meeting. Many sidewalk committee members were in favor of the warrant. Jeanne Krieger feels she can not support this since it has no teeth and would be difficult to enforce if it did have teeth. Judy brought up a new sidewalk on Sedge Rd across from Diamond Middle school. The sidewalk has no berm so cars park and drive on it. Judy will ask Wayne to stripe the road to clarify the area as sidewalk. Fiske has a SRTS program! They hope to start Walking Wednesday in March. Estabrook has filed the paperwork to partner with the state SRTS program. Judy met with the State Representative for SRTS. She learned that there is no longer money for grants, but money will be available for services. The state will host a walking day Wednesday May 7. Walk Boston would like to come to Lexington to do Bike training.