Finance Committee Meeting

Minutes – April 22, 2013

Town Hall, Lower Level Hearing Room, 7:30 P.M.

Members Present:  Arnold Cohen, Gordon Gladstone, Charles Goodman, Alexander Korin, Ira Miller,

                               Laura Nelson (Hamilton)

                Absent:   William Brack, Brian Fitzgerald, Edward Philips

1.  Ira Miller thanked all the committee members for their input and contribution for recommendations and extra meetings to deliberate.  Thank you to our Clerk, Alex Korin, who did a remarkable job keeping the spreadsheets.  Thanks to Alice Cheyer for helping edit for readability and accuracy of information.  Richard Gelerman, Town Counsel, was present.  Also present were Eli Hauser, Chair of the Planning Board, and Stan Rosen, Chair, and Suzi Peck, Vice Chair, of the Board of Health.

2. The first item on the agenda was to discuss Article 2.  Establish Professional District B and to place district on the land off of South Main Street, and Article 3.  Create a wastewater overlay district and place it on the Zoning Map on Old Post Road, to get the information needed to vote on them.

3. Robert Shelmerdine represented the owner of the land for these two parcels.  They have entered into an MOU, Memorandum of Understanding, with the Board of Selectmen.  The Finance Committee members got copies.  The owner wants to put up assisted living.  Nothing in deal for northern parcel.  Drafting an overrriding waste water facility to service both northern and southern parcel.  Had public hearings.  The Planning Board voted 3-1-0 in favor and the Selectmen voted 3-0-0 in favor.

4. There was considerable discussion on the change in the number of gallons of water from 64,000 gallons to 48,000 gallons.  The Board of Health wanted 44,000 gallons.  They were also concerned about keeping 100’ setbacks.  The number of affordable housing for the Sharon Housing Inventory would only be 70.

5. Eli Hauser stated that there is a need to have assisted living units.  The Planning Board was comfortable with southern parcel.  3-1 vote.  The dissenting vote was concerned about density.  The southern portion enabled assisted living, the zoning on northern portion allowed sequencing ahead of southern.

6. Bob Shelmerdine answered questions that Alex Korin had proposed.

7. The committee would wait for more information before voting on Articles 2 and 3.

8. Chuck Goodman praised the Finance Committee Chair, Ira Miller, for all his hard work getting the recommendations into the Warrant.

9. Laura Nelson left at 9:55 p.m.

10. The next meeting will be April 29, 2013, Open Warrant Meeting.  The Regular Finance Committee meeting will be at 7 p.m. prior to the Open Warrant meeting at 8 p.m.

11. It was MOVED and SECONDED to adjourn.

12. VOTED:  5-0-0.

13. The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 p.m.