HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 06/09/2011IMA Study Group Meeting
Mansfield — Foxborough- Norton
June 9, 2011 6:OOPM
(At Mansfield Town Hall)
Members:
Mansfield: None
Foxborough: Leo Potter
Bill Euerle
Norton Duane Knapp
Diane McElligott
Also in Attendance: Bill Ross, Mansfield Town Manager
David Young, CDM
Fran Yanuskiewicz, W &S
Jay Barrows, State Representative
Bob Bell, AECOM
Richard Pacella, Foxborough W &S
Brad Bramwell, Norton BOS
Bob Kimball, Norton BOS
Discussions:
The following is a brief summary of discussions:
1. Effluent Recharge Sites
• CDM is conducting a site assessment of the Reilly Property. Recent site walk
conducted with owners. No surprises to date.
• Reilly's attorney forwarded some comments on the site acquisition agreement and
Mansfield responded back. David Young spoke with Francis Reilly during site
walk to help resolve some items such as treed buffer distance, placement of
monitoring wells etc.
• Giblin property (Martha Dion's daughter) is now up for sale.
2. Community Updates
• Mansfield —Town meeting recently passed article for additional funding needed
to acquire Reilly property via SRF Loan Program.
•
Foxborough—Nothing new with Patriots discussions. Representative Barrows
said that Chestnut Green developer is interested in abandoning their wastewater
plant and tying into the Foxborough sewer system at 25,000 gpd.
• Norton — Norton is planning a special town meeting for first week in October.
Their FinCom would like a firm agreement to purchase Reilly Property in mid
August in order to place an article to acquire the property on the town meeting
warrant. Nothing new with Wheaton until all costs are defined.
3. Discussion on Preliminary Draft of Regional District Agreement (3- 23 -11)
• Main topic of discussion was proposed Norton PILOT.
• Jay Barrows noted that all sides are very close to an agreement and we
need to resolve this one issue. Appears to be conceptual support for
PILOT but at a reasonable price. He has heard from Mansfield FinCom
that they are skeptical about it and won't support $300K value. Also noted
Mansfield is giving up Title 5 flow issue for actually flows which gives
Foxborough and Norton in essence free flow capacity.
• Bill Ross indicated that his conversations with Mansfield selectmen
indicate no support for a $300K PILOT but likely support is no more than
$200K.
• Diane McElligott believes that Norton has always put forth a request for a
$200K net value as they originally requested it be paid as a credit to their
bill. Emphasized that Norton has not changed their request.
• Brad Bramhall and Bob Kimball re- iterated their support for the Norton
W &S Commissioners position.
• Diane McElligott put forth the concept of trying to phase the PILOT and
the construction of the expansion.
• David Young noted the costs to date are for a one time expansion and that
real savings where in economy of scale for the 1.5 mgd expansion
scenario.
• Fran Yanuskiewicz noted there isn't a lot of experience out there with
similar PILOTS. He knows Salem received one from the SESD but doesn't
know how much. I-Ie believes the PILOT memo of January 10, 2011
clearly gives the reasoning for the $200K net to Norton request.
• Bill Euerle remembers the discussion about the $200K credit to Norton
but Foxborough folks were confused about whether it was gross or net
value since discussion was more about how a credit could or could not be
issued.
• Bob Kimball said he understood the PILOT to be a means to offset loss to
Norton for taking valuable lands away from their potential industrial park
expansion.
• Bill Ross indicated this is a major issue and could stop the District from
going forward since Special Legislation only authorized ability to create; it
did not actually create it.
• Bob Kimball stated that without a formal district agreement the Norton
Selectmen would not support a land taking article for the Reilly property.
So that more or less sets a schedule to finalize the agreement.
• David Young urged everyone to step back and consider the real difference
in cost being discussed between the $200K gross and $200K net which is
$300K gross (paid by all three communities). He summarized the
following:
• Percentage to be paid is from expansion capacity which means
Mansfield (44 %), Foxborough (23 %) and Norton (33 %).
• A $200K payment thus means each community pays: Mansfield
($88K), Foxborough ($46K) and Norton ($66).
• A $300K payment thus means each community pays: Mansfield
($132K), Foxborough ($69K) and Norton ($99)
• Difference to each community is: Mansfield ($44K), Foxborough
($23K) and Norton ($33K)
• Need to really consider when discussing millions in commitment
for this program whether those deltas are worth deadlocking over.
• Suggested going with $200K PILOT but starting first fiscal year of
substantial completion of first infiltration basin instead of trying to
phase. PILOT would be indexed from that point.
4. Schedule to Complete Agreement
• Must resolve Norton PILOT first.
David Young indicated that past meeting minutes would be worked on and some
available at next meeting.
Future Meetings:
July 7t" and 14th at 6 pm. (Mansfield Town Hall))
Adjourn 7:45 pm
Minutes Approved 11 -21 -11