Yesterday at the Massachusetts Municipal Association annual meeting I got to hear from Governor Patrick, Speaker DeLeo, Amy Pinter of DOR, and the Secretary of Administration and Finance, Glen Shor. Today the speakers have included Senators Markey, Warren, and Mayor Walsh. Senator Warren was by far and away the best speaker today and Governor Patrick gets my vote for the best speech yesterday.
I have spoken with representatives from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, who encouraged us to engage the MAPC to plan for development of the State Hospital site. MAPC is our regional planning agency and its services are free.
I also spoke with the DEP about increasing our water withdrawal rights if we have new development at the MSH site and whether we will need to permit anew the MSH tubular well fields once we get it transferred to us by the state as part of the mediated resolution of the MSH clean up.
I spoke with DEP about how best to increase our recycling rates.
I have information about a number of useful sounding products from the trade show vendors, including a technology that does double duty as a sponge like material that you plant with a new tree and it reduces watering need, which material can also be installed in sheets on roofs to create a planting medium to create green roofs. There was also a spray on roof surface that sounds like it generated savings. I will pass all materials along to the appropriate town personnel.
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