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Sewer Planning Work Group
Meeting Minutes
May 31, 2013
Present: Nancy Wheatley, Chair; Members Anderson, Fee, Glowacki, McIntyre,
Soverino, Stott, Williams; DPW Director Buzanoski, Planning Director
Vorce.
Next meeting: June 21, 2013 Department Public Works Conference Room
1:00 p.m.
I. Call to order
Chair called meeting to order 10:04 a.m at Board of Selectmen Conference Room, 16 Broad St.
II. Minutes
• SPWG approved minutes of 9/12/12 and 10/15/12 by unanimous consent with
Mr. Fee abstaining.
• SPWG approved minutes of April by unanimous consent.
III. Review current status of Sewer Users List and discuss further action.
• SPWG continued to discuss at length, the newly discovered connections that
have not been billed for sewer services.
• Chair announced that the matter having come to the attention of the BOS
administratively, the formal notification from SPWG as anticipated at our last
meeting had become moot.
• DPW Director updated SPWG on the status of research within the data-base;
cross checking Assessors records, DPW records and Wannacomet Water
Company (billing) records. Results anticipated within weeks, possibly by next
meeting.
• Motion by Mr. McIntyre: With respect to the unbilled properties connected to
the sanitary sewerage system, SPWG recommends to the BOS that the
Town of Nantucket defer billing those properties until the data base has
been vetted by SPWG with the assistance of DPW Director and Planning
Director. SPWG further recommends that the town effect notification to the
affected property owners as soon as possible after the data base has been
vetted and before billing begins. Adopted by unanimous consent. DPW
Director to develop a narrative for the next meeting, and to circulate the
electronic spreadsheet that has gone to Wannacomet Water Company.
IV. Discussion on options for changing current capital recovery.
Remaining moments of the meeting focused on an overview of documents provided:
By DPW Director:
• Sewer Enterprise Fund Operations Budget FY 2014, as of 12/18/12, 4 pps.
• FY 2013 Sewer Enterprise Fund Budget Update as of 4/30/13, 1 p.
• FY 2014 Sewer Enterprise Fund Forecast Summary, 1 p.
• Debt amortization Schedule, 4 pps.
• A single sheet described as furnished to Capital Planning Committee
And provided by Mr. Soverino (Finance Committee):
• Sewer Enterprise Fund Debt Service Summary, FY 14 thru FY 17.
V. Topics for next meeting:
• What cost estimates (order of magnitude) are available for:
o Madaket Plant..
o Madaket Extension
o Hummock Pond Area
VI. Meeting Adjourned 11:58 a.m.