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August 8, 2000 Meeting Minutes Meeting One Chair called the meeting to order at 5:15 PM, Tuesday August 8, 2000. Chair stated that CLD Consulting Engineers was present to discuss an approach to consensus building. He turned the meeting over to Charles Hirshberg, Project Manager from CLD, who introduced Tom Sommers, a Principal at CLD, who will be facilitating a consensus building process. Tom will attempt to bring a Stakeholders committee through the consensus building process, which is especially important given the controversy surrounding this project. The Ad-Hoc committee wants to keep the general public informed of what is going on with the project; minutes will be distributed and available to the public. Tonight’s meeting is to outline the facilitation process. CLD provided an agenda for the meeting and for the continuing workshops. This was the subject of discussion for the remainder of this meeting. Mission is what we (the committee) decide it is. Right now the Mission, as outlined in CLD’s handout, is based on the warrant article. All meetings will be open to the public; however, discussion and votes will come from the Stakeholders Committee. It is imperative that all members of the committee attend all meetings. Constraints: Site has certain constraints which will be defined through this process. From the Constraints and Goals we will develop Criteria to work with. We will weigh our potential designs against the Criteria. The Criteria will be established by what our goals are and what we want to do and agree on. Agreement does not mean that everyone agrees, rather that the majority of the consensus building group agrees on it. We can also establish our priorities based on the Criteria. As part of the process, we need to look at and follow the Criteria to make sure that they are correct. We will evaluate design concepts based on the Criteria in order to develop a “final concept” with a cost estimate tied to it. Ground Rules: Ground Rules for interaction through the workshop were recommended by CLD. The Ground Rules are essentially about courtesy and to ensure that everyone is heard. Courtesy can be hard to come by when dealing with contentious issues. It is important that we stay on track. We need to hear from everyone honestly. Part of the process is making sure that we speak about things when it’s appropriate to do so. We need to stay on track. We are in this together and have a collective responsibility. When a consensus is not clear, the committee will vote either openly or by ballot. This is true for all issues, not just the final product. One person should speak at a time. We hope that people will develop trust in the process. We should have fun and a sense of humor through the process. No speeches, please; we should try to observe the “30 Second Rule”. Spelling doesn’t count. Meetings should not last longer than two hours. CLD will prepare the agenda for each workshop. Minutes will be sent to people via email or US mail (if they provide their address). The Stakeholders Committee: The Stakeholders Committee is a group of concerned citizens, representing various interests, who will participate fully in the workshop. It is the responsibility of the Ad-Hoc Committee to decide on the participants. Must be a small group (15-20 people). Participants must commit their presence to all meetings. There should be a reasonably broad representation of views on the committee. The general public will have a chance to speak at one of the meetings. They can also speak with people on the committee about their views. We should have representatives from each set of stakeholders, i.e. abutters, business people, etc. The Chair asked people to identify themselves if they were interested in serving on the committee. The following persons were selected to participate as Stakeholders. Jack Daggitt - Conservation Commission (as an abutter) Sol Baumrind - Abutter (farm) Gerry Griffin - Stowe Landtrust/Interested Party/Not an abutter or Business owner Bruce Noujan - Stowe Area Association Dick Marron - Chair of Ad-Hoc Committee/Selectboard Christopher Francis - Stowe Area Association Lillian Zuber - Stowe Tomorrow (Concerned with the future of Stowe) Eric Zeikel - Friends of the Mayo Farm Marion Kellogg - Ripple Stream/Stream Protection (questionable due to schedule) Virginia (Chris) Wood - Stowe Historical Society Donna Wheeler - Open, broad minded & fair person Scott Dunn - Town Administrator Gar Anderson - Cemetery Commission Sonny Davis - Lifelong Resident of Stowe Peg Guerra - Abutter Evelyn Frey - Abutter Donna Higgins - Abutter Would like to set up 5 meetings, six would be fine. “If we can get through pieces of this then you will see how this starts to come together with the overall process.” Tom Sommers The Format: Five to six workshop meetings. The schedule of the first four are: August 29, 2000 5:00 P.M. September 19, 2000 5:00 P.M. October 3, 2000 5:00 P.M. October 17, 2000 5:00 P.M. The discussion at meetings is scheduled as follows: Meeting Two
The Criteria should be prioritized into most important to least important categories. Develop design concept ideas for the CLD Team to use to prepare conceptual plans for Meeting Four. Meeting Four
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