The Hooksett Conservation Commission met on February 9, 2026, at 4:30 PM. The meeting was chaired by Al Stein (Co-Chair) and attended by members Joe Carroll Woodburn (Chair), Philip Fitonitas, John Peroni, Alex Walzik, and Bob Barker (arriving late). The agenda included public comments, approval of minutes, a site walk report, planning for a public meeting with Moosewood Ecological, updates on Quimby Mountain stewardship, Stantec engineering design, Clay Pond gate issues, contract negotiations, Earth Day cleanup, and a wetland permit notification.
Okay. Shall we start? Okay, yes, it's 4 30. Yeah, we're gonna call the meeting the order. This is the conservation commission. The date is February 9th, 2026. And um I think Al is gonna chair the meeting tonight. So you want to proceed? Introduce yourself. Okay, and are we doing that first? I'm Joe Carroll Woodburn, Chair, Co Chair Allen Stein, co-chair. Philip Fitonitas, member. Well better alternate. John Peroni member. And I believe Sheena is excused, and typically Alex will be here. And Bob Barker. Bob Barker often arrives a few minutes late, and we have a new alternate that was uh officially signed their paperwork, John Pennell, and we uh you haven't heard from him, is that right, Kathy? I have not. Okay. So can we do the Pledge of Allegiance, please? And so one nation under liberty justice for all. I don't know. We I always like to prevent our guests from being aboard with our mundane business. So if if uh people are okay, uh I'd like to uh have our guests step to the microphone. Can you just identify yourself and your address, please? Okay, Carrie Hyde, 36 Edgewater Drive and Hooksit. I'm here representing Hooks It Old Home Day. Uh one second, Carrie. Yep. There's a page in the back of your pamphlet in a packet uh with regard to this matter. Go ahead. Okay. Um so the committee for the last two years has worked with the Heritage Commission and the Historic Society to have a hooks it um trolley ride, a heritage trolley ride, and it does a loop in hooks it. So this coming year, September 19th, that's a third Saturday in September, um, is old home day in hooksit. And the loop starts obviously at town hall, it goes over to Prescott Library, it'll go hopefully to the Legion, and then it'll go over to the Congregational Church, Veterans Park, stop over at um what we'd like to do is add the Riverwalk Trail, and then it goes over to the head school, and then the last stop would be the head pond trail. So we'd like to incorporate those trails on the heritage tour. And what we'd like to ask for the from your committee is if you'd have someone at the head at the beginning of the trails to kind of give information to people who get off the trolley. The full loop will be about 20 minutes. So every 20 minutes you'd see the trolley come by, people get on, get off. Um it would start at 11 a.m. and go until 4 p.m. The event starts at 10 a.m. with the parade. And then we start our opening ceremony over behind town hall at 10 30, and then the whole day would end at 4 30. The trolley would run until 5 to make sure there's no stragglers left somewhere, and they need we also have two school buses that'll be shuttling at some spots, but it won't be doing the full trolley run because um normally we do parking at Cygna, but we can't do that anymore because they're supposed to be turning that into something. Um so the school buses will shuttle from Lamberts Park, well, the Legion, Lambert's Park, the courthouse, because there's parking there, and then it'll go, I'll have it go over to Heads Pond, because there's a few parking spots there, and then it'll loop back to town hall where there's more people can get on and off. Um another thing that the committee would like to do is Old Home Day started at Lamberts Park. That's where originally had vendors and they would gather. So we would like to have some vendors at Lambert's Park, a couple food trucks. So when people get off, they'll be able to kind of mingle there.