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This meeting on 2026-08-25 began at 6:37 p.m. with a quorum of committee members present. The primary purpose was to discuss the findings of a recent site walk conducted by committee members and planning board participants through the downtown area. The group reviewed sidewalk conditions, crosswalk visibility, signage, speed-calming needs, and other pedestrian infrastructure observations, then considered how these findings could inform recommendations and potential state funding applications.
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Started uh we had a town and about 27 we'll show up uh do we actually about what people decide and um break the video last year, but um it's really just a place for residents to bring ideas concerning sponsors and then the support to make them we're gonna go ahead and get started if we want to say um it is 6 37 p.m. Are you ready? Yes, okay, 6 30 7 p.m. Do we have a motion to open the meeting? Motion uh okay, motion by Louise, second by Betsy, all those in favor, aye. Approval July minutes. Um questions, comments, concerns about the July minutes. No, hearing none. Um I uh do we have a motion to approve the July minutes? So motion seconded. Great. Uh all those in favor. Aye. Aye. Wonderful. Um Betsy. Since you and I are the only people who went on the sidewalk of our committee members who are present here today. Yes. Thoughts, questions, comments? Um I felt like it was a pretty productive one. Um we got to talk a lot. I was just discussing with um Anna James earlier. She asked how it went. I told her that some of the key things that we were looking at were areas where sidewalks could be added or improved, where signage could be used to improve or further designate uh crosswalks, and how those could be possibly moved or improved. Um, the discussion around other areas like garbage cans, public bathrooms. I thought it was pretty productive in identifying areas of kids own. Yeah, and we had some some planning board uh participation, and so that felt um like a helpful point to get their perspective as well. Yeah, um is there anything else that we want to talk about in terms of that? I mean, we walked, we started at the common park, we started the commons, and then we went down front street and we walked down to the cemetery. Um we identified that that sidewalk in particular should be extended and also raised um and potential speed calming measures there as well. Yes. Um we identified um the informal um trail that exists on GE property as a place where people go across the road tracks, um, and that being something that that people um use frequently and and trying to figure out how to make that safer. We um looked at the cemetery in particular, and just uh we can note now that it's a it's a very frequently used space. Yeah, so considering how people use it and and putting that into our recommendations. Um Jackie, we're talking about the the sitewalk. Sidewalk, the site sidewalk, and therefore also the sidewalk. They are equated. Um uh or the site visit. I what they're the same thing, I guess. Um so