HomeMy WebLinkAboutAg Com Minutes - 09 20 2011_201402041643086417Agricultural Commission September 20, 2011 – Nantucket Public Safety Facility
Meeting Minutes
Members in Attendance:
1. Dylan Wallace – Chair
2. Morgan Beryl – Secretary
3. Dane DeCarlo 4. Amy Zelinski – new member
5. Campbell Sutton – new member
Absent Members:
1. Danny Baird – new member
2. Steve Slosack
Audience:
1. Tobias Glidden
* Vote on Minutes: Morgan moved to approve 4/4 meeting minutes, second by Dane,
all in favor
1. Chair welcomes new members and each member introduces themselves and their
reason for joining the agricultural commission.
2. Group discussion on ethics and conflict of interest seminars. All members to
complete these online seminars if they have not attended, and be sure there is no conflict of interest within their membership.
• Discussion of help line if any member is unsure of a conflict of interest, or
if they should recuse themselves form an certain commission vote.
3. Right to Farm By Law:
• Morgan was supposed to contact Cormac at Land Council. Morgan to do before next meeting.
• The group would like to identify what protections are in place already
and what would be added to that protection if a “By Law” was
created/instituted.
4. Agricultural Survey:
• Group to perform another big “push” to get surveys completed by passing
around master list of agricultural contacts to Ag Com members, and each
member taking on personally contacting certain contacts and asking them
to fill out survey.
i. Morgan to indicated who has already responded and then send out
list to various members.
ii. Once members have chosen their contacts, Morgan to print copies of surveys, supply envelopes and stamps (at request of
member).
iii. Members to have made contact and have surveys turned
into Morgan by October 26th.
iv. Morgan to calculate all survey data and have present at next Ag Com meeting – slated for November 3rd, 2011.
• Ag Com goal is to have at least 51% of survey responses from outreach.
5. Review of Work Plan:
• Ag Com reviews work plan briefly, and makes various language and goal
changes.
i. Dylan to make various changes, then send draft document to all Ag Com members for one additional round of edit. ii. After edits have been perform, Dylan to create a finalized
work plan.
• Finalization and adoption of Work Plan to take place at next Ag Com
meeting.
6. Discussion of Commission member appointments and terms:
• Originally appointments were supposed to rotate annually, but since Dylan has taken on the position of Chair, the positions have not rotated.
• Dylan has been chair for two years and is ready to rotate.
* Vote to make new appointments (Chair / Secretary), starting on a rotational
schedule in March of 2012. Moved by Campbell, second by Amy
• As of now, position replacements are not indicated.
• Morgan Beryl’s term will end in March when she moves off island.