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61-187 Selectmen’s Meeting – July 6, 1998 Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to instruct the manager to make accommodations in the FY 2000 budget to fund the position of economic development officer. Newsletter At last year’s Goal Setting Meeting, the Board and the Town Manager settled on a semi-goal of trying to produce an external community newsletter, which would communicate important issues to the citizens. Mr. White has had a commitment from the leadership at Grace Chapel to hand deliver a newsletter. Mr. White is asking that two Board members act as editors; they would have some control over the content and what gets put into the newsletter. Mr. White has identified six potential items. Mr. White proposes that the Newsletter be sent semi-annually: one in the November/December period right before the tax rate gets set and once in March/April right before the budget gets adopted and Town Meeting starts; those are probably the two most critical periods. Mr. White suggested sending out the Newsletter for one year and then see what feedback is received before continuing the Newsletter. Mr. White plans to provide the Board with a list of potential topics by the end of August, at which time the Board can make some decision on direction. Mrs. Eddison and Mr. Fenn would be happy to work on the newsletter. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to instruct the Town Manager to develop systems to produce a municipal newsletter at least twice a year. Selectmen Liaison Report 4-Town Planning Group Mrs. Krieger stated that the 4-Town Planning Group is a Subcommittee of HATS. Karl Packard, Concord Planning Board member, gave a presentation a couple of months ago. He is taking a leadership role in the 4-Town Planning Group. The goals of the 4-Town Planning Group are essentially standards by which the 4 towns would like to design development that preserves the cultural, historical, and environmental qualities that citizens enjoy. In addition to those goals, the 4-Town Planning Group is charged with figuring out a process to implement those standards. It is the intention of the 4-Town Planning Group to hire a consultant that would look at the current zoning regulations in the 4 towns and make recommendations on how to consider regional development activities so that the Towns could have a collaborative development process. The 4-Town Planning Group has divided the proposal in terms of how they want to give out the work. They are prepared to offer a contract to MAPC for the first phase of work, which would define the current zoning regulations in the 4-town area and look at what the impact of development would be if it were built to its full extent within the current regulations. Specifically, they are proposing to:1) establish a GIS for the affected areas of the 4-Town