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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-06-11-GCC-minMINUTES Greenways Corridor Sub - Committee June 11, 4:30 -5:30 Ellen Stone Room, Cary Hall Members Present Rick Abrams, Alex Dohan, Eileen Entin, KeithOhmart Guest: Betsy Sarles, logo designer 1. Logo Presentation- Betsy Sarles who is designing the logo for ACROSS Lexington joined us for a discussion of the work she has done. We liked each of the concepts presented but decided to focus on "tricorn" hat version. Next steps will be for Betsy to do additional iterations and move the text, possibly use other fonts, change the hat slightly and add color. We discussed a white background with the text and hat being in blue. She will get us something a week from tonight so that we can review before Alex goes away. The final version will be presented at the next GCC meeting. a. Betsy offered to photoshop the ACROSS Lexington logo on posts, trees, etc. on the bike path to help people visualize what it will look like. Rick will also ask Betsy if she can do this in other areas. See #3 below for presentation needs. 2. Adams to North street crossing- we reviewed the image that Dave Canon sent to us and we look forward to the implementation. Adams Street will be repaved in the near future and the crosswalk and the wheelchair pad(s) will be created at that time. We will ask the Stewards to schedule the creation of the path from the bikeway to Adams street. a. We will ask Dave for a a multi -year road paving plan so that we can plan for additional crosswalks even if the specific ACROSS Lexington routes are not yet done. The costs are negligible if done when road worktakes place. 3. Conservation Commission on July 24 -Keith passed out a revised budget and will also email it to us. The total is slightly more than the previous budget but is still under $1,000. We briefly discussed Mike's Marking and Sign Plan and jumped to the second to the last page since it contains the list of possible signs on the route. a. Rick and Jay Sklar (who volunteered at the Stewards meeting to help) will work on the images. Keith thinks that a subset of the 17 various signs will be sufficient. See La. above. Perhaps Betsy will help with all of the signage exaples. b. Rick will create the presentation and lead it off. It will be simple and contain the summary budget (not the detail) and the marking plan will be an appendix. Mike will co- present and answerquestions about the plan. c. Assuming we get approval on July 24 we will work with Karen shortly after to identify the final locations of signage. d. We will plan to order the signage after this sign -off. e. Karen has indicated in an email that her department will pay for the pilot route signage. 4. Schedule a presentation to Board of Selectmen - Rick will contact Deb to see how she suggests moving forward. Should we meet with the Selectmen first and then the HDC? We will take her lead. 5. Purchase/Installation of Materials -We will be able to purchase from Home Depot or Friends Lumber. We need our account number. Home Depot needs to search under Tax Exempt status to find Citizens for Lexington Conservation. They can also look under Keith's phone number. Friends Lumber has a paper system and all you need to do is let them know the purchases are for Citizens of Lexington Conservation. a. We will probably purchase a small number of posts at a time instead of all at once. There won't be a difference in price and this will give us more flexibility with respect to storage, etc. b. We will buy all of the signage at one time and Mike will coordinate this. 6. How and When to Schedule the installation- Once we get to the approval stage sometime after the July 24 meeting and a separate meeting with Karen, we will be ready to get some weekday workdays scheduled. Stew, Bob, Mike and others have experience getting volunteers. We will start to schedule the workdays as soon as we are comfortable that we are going forward. In addition to Stewards, we will see if other members of the GCC will be willing to help. 7. Bikeway Advisory Committee- Alex, Eileen and Peggy walked the part of the bikeway that will be utilized by the ACROSS Lexington Pilot project. As long as it is considered a test, we should be able to put the signage on the bikeway a. Two Caveats- One, we need HDC approval. Two, we will keep the signage to a minimum. Since Peggy, Stew and Bob are on the committee, we assume that all will work out. 8. Marketing /communication rollout of Phase I- We didn't speak about this other than Alex's suggestion to have a table at the Farmer's market in September or whenever we are ready. Other Items - 9. GCC Meeting on June 25 Keith, Rick and Alex will not be at the next GCC meeting. Only Eileen will be present. Rick will contact Deb to see if we can get a speakerphone in the meetingroom. If not, Rick will contact Bob and ask we can use his iPhone as a speakerphone for the meeting, or at least the part of the meeting where we discuss the logo. Rick will get a conference call -in number and distribute it to all who will be on the call. 10. Diamond Landscaping Committee - Alex has been in contact with Ginna Johnson who is on the Diamond Landscape committee and said that she will help with the project. They will be in contact later this summer. 11. Fence at Victory Gardens - Rick will contact Pat Goddard to discuss the fence and when it will come down. Keith will email the page from a town document stipulating this. 12. New Trail behind Diamond - Rick will coordinate with Stew to make sure the Scout is on track to complete this trail during the summer.