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Greenways Corridor Committee ACROSS Lexington Task Group
February 15, 2012 4-5:30 pm
Room G -15 Town Hall
Members Present: Rick Abrams, Alex Dohan, Eileen Entin, Keith Ohmart
Subject Discussed: Across Lexington project. Discussion only, no votes taken.
1. Critical steps to complete the installation of the first trail loop were identified as
follows:
a. Create new trail connecting the Cheisa Farm property across Diamond
Middle School property to connect with new trail on Victory Garden Way
property allowing access to Hancock Street. Keith will create a project
outline.
b. ACROSS Lexington logo design needed. Rick will propose several
options at the February 28 full committee meeting.
c. Trail signage system — Mike has already taken on the task of proposing a
trail signage system design with a delivery date of early March.
d. Fund raising for purchase of signs /materials for phase 1. Keith will
prepare an outline of tasks.
e. Critical presentation meetings to be scheduled:
- DPW (Rick to coordinate)
- Police (Rick to coordinate)
- Bicycle Advisory Committee (discuss with Peggy Enders at
February 28 full committee meeting)
2. Remaining town committee presentations — Keith will create a prioritized list of
remaining town committees which should be approached for a presentation
meeting.
3. Publicity - Rick volunteered to develop an outline of possible publicity measures
to take to promote use of the first trail loop upon completion.
4. Budgeting Emily Schadler's time — Karen Mullins has requested an estimate from
GCC in regards to time requests of Emily's time for FY 2013. We identified the
following likely needs and plan on reviewing these against a more comprehensive
project outline for the first loop phase which Rick will prepare.
- Conservation Department oversight of Diamond School trail
construction
Conservation Department oversight of installation of Across
Lexington route signs on Conservation properties
Additional map preparation time
A cti on Ttem q
Keith — prepare Cheisa Farm/Diamond School trail project outline
- prepare fund raising outline
- prepare prioritized list of remaining town committee meetings
Rick — prepare list of logo design options
- coordinate DPW /Police meetings
- create publicity measures outline
- create comprehensive project outline for first loop phase
Mike — trail signage system design
Minutes prepared by Keith Ohmart