
Richard DeSorgher recently shared a list of things left undone by the selectmen at the time he left. I took his thoughtful list, and incorporated my own items, and came up with the below list of things I thought the selectmen should be looking to oversee to completion, which I organized around the town staff who should be doing the things. My suggestion at our last BoS meeting, when I shared this list with my colleagues, was that these things get included in the Selectmen Annual Calendar, along with those things that the selectmen need to do every year, which I highlighted from past lists i included. Mike is working on revising his draft of the Selectmen Annual Calendar – which I will post next.
Pending Items for Medfield Town Administration
- Town administration
- Weekly written reports to residents
- Weekly meetings of department heads
- Removal of RR tracks across Harding Street and Farm Street
- Arrange for the following:
- Superintendent of DPW
- Create a pavement maintenance plan
- Create a public tree inventory and tree planting plan
- Install a sidewalk on Metacomet Street
- Install a sidewalk on Dale Street from Charlesdale to Grove
- Provide cost estimates for sidewalks on East Main Street and Harding Street
- Solve Green Street telephone poles by Hinkley Swim Pond in sidewalk
- Turn on the bubbler in front of town hall
- Plan to use the $9,000 for planting trees in the Downtown and $500 for dressing up/ landscaping the lawn in front of town hall
- Install a crosswalk across Main Street at Miller Street
- Spring clean up
- DPW to organize
- Make use of Sheriff Bellotti’s inmates
- Medfield Police Department
- Get regular written reports
- Plans for traffic lights at Rte 27 and (1) South and (2) West
- Solution to parking/traffic on Upham Road St.
- Implement Curve Street as a No-truck street
- Have officers enforce the sign rules
- Solution to dog poop problems
- Medfield Fire Department
- Get regular written reports
- Medfield State Hospital – need to provide information to residents
- Town wide master plan timing
- Complete before any MSH land sales so as to secure state Land Disposition Agreement (LDA) bonus money
- Housing Production Plan
- Complete
- Implement
- Create a strategy to deal with 40B and/or affordable housing
- Poll and integrate Downtown Study Committee and Economic Development Committee
- Board of Selectmen
- Interview the auditors
Pete The list looks good-hopefully the Board will schedule a plan to complete them -not to add to a long list but the other thing I missed was Mike was going to get Dave Maxon to write a letter to the utilities for possible cell towers on the new water tower-do you know if he did that ? Thanks for all you do ! Richard Ps -I bless you every day I take your shortcut through the wilds of Dover, Needham,Wellesley and Newton -a much easier commute
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