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April 17, 2013
7:30 pm @ Town.Hall 3rd Floor
Present: Neil, Brian, Pat, Nancy, Jason, David, Patricia
Absent: Mike
We have one vacant position
Guest Speaker 7:30-8:00
1.Guest Speaker: Shaun Burke, Mansfield's Planning Director, who will provide an overview of
proposed changes to zoning bylaws in downtown Mansfield. Shaun did not show up for the
meeting.
Welcome &Administration: 8:00-8:15
2.Review& approve minutes from previous meeting -approved
3.Committee appointments by BOS we are now an official committee. Members are working
on getting sworn in at Town Hall. Members have new terms. We still have one vacancy.
Litter Prevention and Cleanup 8:15-8:30
• Litter Index—Jason, Neil, and Mike did a trimmed back version of the Litter Index
on April 6th, avoiding neighborhoods for the most part.
• Our score this year as 1.82 (1: Litter Free, 4: Heavily Littered)
• Past scores:
o 2010: 1.882
o 2011: 1.793
o 2012: 1.871
• Overall, this is a good sign, as most neighborhoods we have visited in the past tend to
be on the low end of the litter spectrum.
• Problem areas flagged:
o Corner of Willow and School Street
o Wooded area on West Street near Tremont
o Tire in field near Benny's/Leaves on sidewalk on Copeland Drive
o Shields Street: the turn
o Francis Street
o Maple Street to Franklin
4.2013 GMC
a.Review assignments and cleanup routes (Neil)
b.Communitygroup outreach (Pat)-we have a lot of groups signed up
c.Tee-shirts (Brian)—are ready for Friday April 19
Beautification & Community Greening:8:30-9:00
1'.Route 106 embankment -no update here at this time.
2.Logan Marks project—They would not let him take down the tree downtown but he is work on
his project this week and he was able to get the bushes taken out. They were also doing the
school sites.
3.Adopt a Spot (Pat)
• Girl Scouts are starting out with the project next to the Mansfield Green-there is
a sink hole there that we need DPW to fill in. This project is in full swing.
• East Common sign also being looked at by another Girl Scout Group
• Guerrini also contacted Patricia regarding having some extra trees to maybe
donate idea to maybe put in front of DPW building.
• Idea to get some nice updated pictures of the adopt-a-spot sites for the website.
Maybe in the Spring or Summer months, once in full bloom.
4.Mural Update (Nancy)
• Heading into the first phase of preparing the wall soon. The committee has
enough to start moving forward. Still looking to raise more funds.
5. Farmer's Market sign—we are requesting an estimate for a price to match the North and
South Common signs.
Administration: 9:00-9:30
6.Treasurer's report (Mike)
Current Balance: $ 10,926.70
Cleanup Donations: $3650.00
The donation total is as of April 5th (the last time I got a snapshot of the account from the
Accountants office).` I've also uploaded the latest version of the account spreadsheet to the
Google Drive area.
Here are the donors included in amount above:
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Attractions Salon
a.2013 fundraising update-we have also got money from Mansfield Bank($500) and from HR
Knowledge($500) - HR knowledge also may be interested in maintaining the 106 embankment
project once finished. Likely are up to about$5650 or so with what we are awaiting to come in.
b.Status of account at Mansfield Bank and Paypal unsure of update at this point,Mike is not
here. We think we have 2 separate PayPal accounts (mural and KMB) and then they go
through to Mansfield Bank 2 accounts(mural and KMB)
c.Non-profit gift fund grant—no updates-we are still awaiting decision
6.Communications &PR (Neil)
a.Rotary Club meeting, March 26, 11:30 a.m. —1:00 p.m. —Neil went, they support projects all
over the world.
b.MHS Green Day, March 28, 8:30-11:00 a.m. —Neil went—it was somewhat well attended by
students.
c.Thank you notes-Pat is going to bring to next meeting.
7.Open issues; new ideas?
8.Next meeting date-May 8-June 12 and August 14
For next meeting add flower barrels and trash barrels and 'we noticed'