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Home My WebLink AboutKMB 06/09/2016.CENED "Empowering residents, businesses, and government to 2011 FEB 23 A C� 40 make Mansfield a greener, cleaner place to live, work, and play" Meeting Minutes for June 9, 2016 7:00 pm Town Hall, 3rd floor Attendees: Nancy Wall, Neil Rhein, Pat Colbert, Mike McCarthy, Jason Dodd, Martha O'Connell, Jeff Ward, Erik Bednarek Absent: Dan Guglielmi KEEP MANSFIELD BEAUTIFUL. Welcome & Call to Order: 7:00(Nancy) Motion to accept minutes from previous meeting • Minutes approved. Treasurer's report 7:05 — Mike • $11,939.02 in account. This doesn't include cost of flower barrels and flowers. • Neil gave receipts for $418.39 for Cleanup picnic supplies (food, supplies, hot dogs, pizza, etc.). Clean-up 7:15 - Neil Consider weekend cleanup We discussed whether or not to offer a weekend cleanup since over the years there have been many conflicts with a Saturday cleanup. Decided to continue with our signature one -day cleanup since it has a community feel/impact with everyone wearing the bright t -shirts and having the picnic following. We will stress in the PR for next year, cleanups can be done other weekends for those with conflicts. Next year represents our l Oh annual cleanup so we will want to make this one a real special one! Updates Mansfield Green — Neil • The shrubs at the Mansfield Green are not doing well, except for the one Dan took care ofl • Nothing to be done this summer, but will revisit in the fall. 106 Embankment —Neil Neil planted more daylilies that he received from the Garden Club. Neil was concerned about the caterpillars on the crabapple trees and the suckers on them. Erik pointed out that suckers on trees indicate they are stressed. We will keep an eye on the trees. Neil will be planting daylilies at the MetroPCS area on the day we plant the flower barrels. • Neil planted flowers at the Flynn's Pub area. Trash around Donations Boxes—Neil • Neil reported to the Town Manager about the trash around the Donations box on the Clemmey Lot in the downtown. Existing Projects Flower barrels — Pat & Nancy • Nancy purchased new plastic barrels to replace the broken oak barrels and for the additional barrels needed for new sponsors. She used the gift card we received from Toyota for $200 to cover the cost. • The plan will be to continue to use the oak barrels until they are damaged. The plastic barrels, sold at Home Depot for $19.99, will be the new barrels moving forward. • We have 78 barrels to plant this year. • Nancy, Neil, and Pat prepared the barrels at the DPW location. • Nancy, Martha, and Jeff will plant some of the barrels on Friday, June 10, starting at the Bead Cache and working towards the intersection. • Flowers barrels to be planted on Saturday, June l ls'. We will meet in the parking lot next to Happy Hollow Frame Shoppe at 8:30. Adopt -a -Spot — Martha • Martha suggested starting a Veteran's Adopt -a -Spot program for all the memorials around town. • The QMS Peace Garden is doing great, with a wonderful response from both the teachers and the students. • Schools will not allow a painted barrel on the site because there is no cover on the barrel and they don't want to order special trash liners. • The QMS sign was planted by Martha, but the students are maintaining it. It looks great! • The sign for the Beauty Queen's location was removed since it wasn't being maintained properly. • Patricia's site at the West Mansfield Common needs to be chained sawed since the Evergreens are overgrown. • Collins Landscaping cleaned up the Evergreen area at the Old Country Store spot. • Route 106/140 intersection needs to be cleaned up. Neil contacted the state to cleanup this area. Litter Busters — event for June 25 — Jeff Jeff has received little response. The Crockett's have responded. The proposed areas to be cleaned up are Wendy's/Copeland Drive and the Train station. We Noticed! - Neil • Neil recommended Rockland Trust. • Pat also nominated Sherman Jackson Funeral. Family Fun Night - Pat • Family Fun Night is Tuesday, July 12th fiom 6:00 — 9:00. This is a rain or shine event. • We received the grant money for the pop-up tent and tablecloth so they will be delivered in time for the event. • We also received the grant money for the brochure. Neil is working with Karen Reardon and finishing up the details. • Pat is working with Kristi on the painted barrel. Flower Power is the theme with brightly colored flowers painted all over the barrel with the saying "We have the power to Keep Mansfield Beautiful". • Pat will send out an email requesting the Committee takes certain shifts throughout the night. Route 140 Trees — Erik • Erik continues to work on the proposal for trees on Route 140. He will incorporate the Safe Streets and Complete Streets concepts. His design will also include bike and pedestrian areas. Fales Fuel Property — Erik • Erik walked the area with Jay Barrows. • This area has huge potential with sustainability as an underlying theme. There is talk about having the area include electric car hookups, solar panels, and a greenway all the way up to the Train Station. • There is $50,000 available for this area. New Programs/possibilities Inventory of unnecessary signs - Neil • Neil would like to set up a time to drive around town and identify the unnecessary signs around town. Town maintenance — Neil • Neil identified trees that need to be removed (South Common) and pruned (East and South Common). He will send a note to DPW. Administration Brochure and website — Neil • Neil continues to work on the brochure. He had three versions of the brochure for us to decide. Neil updated the website with newer technology. He also updated the sponsor section. We took a new Committee photo. We will take another one when we are all at a meeting. Grabber exchange — Nancy • Nancy and Neil returned grabbers they collected at the picnic. Keep Massachusetts Beautiful — Neil • Neil would like to take part in a pilot KAB program that involves an electronic fundraising campaign. It would involve giving KAB the 800 email addresses of people that have participated in the Mansfield Cleanup. We will continue this discussion at the next meeting as we don't need to decide until the end of the summer. Next meeting date: September 15, 2016 Meeting Adjourned at 9:30 Minutes approved on:�JL(�4�L/ at �' Q O Secretary signature: