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SOUND VIEW COMMISSION
On December 13, 2010 during Special Town Meeting a public vote approved the ordinance establishing the Sound View Commission. This marks the first time in the history of Sound View there will be a branch of town government specifically devoted to Sound View. The research and work provided by the “Sound View Commission Formation Committee” along with the Selectmen, town departments and concerned citizens has produced a very practical Commission design. The first meeting occurred on February 28, 2011. Over the next few months all residents and property owners in the SV area will receive a letter more fully describing Commission news. And the Old Lyme Town Web site will have a page dedicated to the SV Commission. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
The Commission has been appointed by the Selectmen and includes:
Frank Pappalardo, Chairman
Michaelle Pearson, Secretary
David Kelsey
Joanne Reis-Lishing
Harry Plaut
Russ Carlo – Alternate
Joseph Camean – Alternate
Frank Maratta – Alternate
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ARTICLE XIV
SOUND VIEW COMMISSION
§20-57 Establishment.
There is hereby established the Sound View Commission for the purposes of preserving, promoting, and assisting in the further development and use of the resources of the Sound View area, which area is more particularly described in Schedule A of this ordinance.
§20-58 Responsibilities.
The Sound View Commission shall have the following responsibilities:
A. Serve as the designated advisor to the Board of Selectmen regarding the Sound View area and as coordinator for said area’s management and development.
B. Act as a liaison between the Sound View area property owners and Town departments and agencies.
C. Assist with the implementation of a long-range plan for the preservation and development of the Sound View area.
§20-59 Membership; terms of office.
Said Commission shall consist of five regular members who shall be appointed by the Board of Selectmen. The terms of the initial members shall be as follows: one member for a one-year term, two members for a two-year term and two members for a three-year term. Thereafter, regular members shall be appointed for a three-year term, ending on the second Monday in January, or until a successor shall have been appointed by the Board of Selectmen. Said Commission shall also have three alternate members appointed by the Board of Selectmen each January to serve for one year.
§20-60 Qualifications.
The Commission shall include three regular members who are property owners or electors who reside within the Sound View area described in Schedule A and two electors from the Town at large. Alternates may be electors from the Town at large.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Meeting Hall, Town Hall
The Old Lyme Water Pollution Control Authority is presenting its proposal to amend the septic system regulations throughout town.
Why should you be concerned and want to attend? Because you fall into one of two different categories:
1. Your perfectly working septic system or cesspool will not conform and you're disgusted with the way this is being forced on everyone living in town.
Or...
2. Your present septic system will easily conform, but you're still disgusted with the way this is being forced on everyone living in town.
Guess who's meeting two days later at 9am?
Water Pollution Control Authority
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM
2nd Floor Conference Room
The non-experts of the OLWPCA will probably be deciding the best way to get their craziness placed onto the agenda by the Board of Selectmen so that we citizens can vote at a special Town Meeting within the next 4-6 weeks.
How can you defeat this and prevent the proposals from ever reaching the voting stage at a Town Meeting?
You bombard the selectmen with emails, letters, petitions and phone messages demanding they not place any proposals on the agenda. You might not be able to sway the First Selectman, so concentrate your efforts by leaning on the other two selectmen. The same vote was postponed this past May and can be effectively killed off for good.
There's no rule saying you can send only one email or make one call. Back up your first contact with multiple reminders. The selectmen are elected to do our bidding, not the other way around where we are lead around like a herd of sheep. If voting is placed on the agenda, not only will we vote the amendments down, we will also vote them out of town hall.
The beach associations can set up tables at the beach entrances or their respective road entrances and ask that property owners sign a petition. Neighborhoods can set up a table at a central location and have residents stop and sign a petition as they pass by in their cars. Business owners might consider asking their resident customers to sign a petition.
Postal Address:
Old Lyme Memorial Town Hall
52 Lyme St,
Old Lyme, CT 06371
Phone Numbers:
Timothy C. Griswold, First Selectman 434-1605 x211
Skip Sibley 434-1605 x212
Bonnie Reemsnyder 434-1121
Fax:
(860) 434-1400
Email:
selectmansoffice@oldlyme-ct.gov <selectmansoffice@oldlyme-ct.gov> (specify Griswold or Sibley in your message)
b.reemsnyder@gmail.com <b.reemsnyder@gmail.com>
What are some questions you can ask yourself and others at the meeting Tuesday night?
1. What expertise and experience does each member of the OLWPCA have in waste management?
2. Why weren't we presented with estimated cost upgrades for a septic tank, for a leaching field, for an engineered system?
3. Will waterfront parcels require advanced treatment systems and what are those costs?
4. What if the DEP is not satisfied and eventually mandates a town-based sewer treatment plant?
5. Why is OL scheduling a rushed 5-year completion time frame?
6. Why aren't we being told about payment options and financing and loan plans?
7. Why aren't small community based sewer systems a consideration for each individual beach association?
8. Why are there no minutes from the OLWPCA since October, 2009?
9. Why haven't engineering firms been consulted and asked to project computer-based data regarding waste removal by means of sewers?
10. Why did OL resort to a presumably ineffective band-aid approach (5-year pump out plan) for over a decade?
11. If the 5-year pump out plan is considered a success, where is the data that we are still polluting?
12. Where are the other plans OL considered since the DEP issued its decree 28 years ago?
13. What option does a homeowner have if his small parcel of land has an abundant area of structure built on that small parcel?
14. Who is to say that property owners will not be charged in the future for Permits to Discharge, Complete Inspection reports, Visual Inspection reports, Liquid Waste Disposal Tickets, Pump-out Permits, and the like?
Old Lyme residents will not have to worry about many of these uncertainties, if we vote down these amendments. Residents will not have to worry about voting, if there is no agenda item. Residents will not have to worry about the agenda, if we make clear to the selectmen NOW that the amendment proposals are ill-conceived, narrow-minded and lack focus with no guarantee of success.
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“Sound View Beach Commission Formation Committee”
February 2010 marks the first year of the “Sound View Beach Commission Formation Committee” (SBCFC).
The purpose of the SBCFC as outlined by the Old Lyme Board of Selectman is:
1) Investigate the effectiveness of creating a Sound View Beach Commission. This would include looking at various beach commissions from other towns and designing one that would be a best fit for the Sound View Beach area.
2) During its existence, this committee may also come forward with recommendations for: improvement, safety, health, and quality of life issues relating to Sound View as well as proposed solutions to the OL BOS.
This past year a tremendous amount of work has been accomplished. During the year a number of issues facing Sound View have been identified and enumerated such as; traffic, parking, overcrowding, public safety, environmental, zoning and regulation/zoning enforcement to name a few. In addition to the task of reviewing other town owned public beaches. Members of the committee contacted over 40 towns in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. Exploring these towns and their approach to management of their public beach areas has provided good insight as to common problems and concerns shared with other towns. A number of meetings with selectman and Old Lyme Police have also occurred. With the data accumulated there is good basis to move forward.
The conclusion reached by the SBCFC is that Sound View needs a comprehensive plan and management structure: One that can withstand growth and remain flexible enough to evolve as needed, while maintaining the unique character of Sound View.
Several options are presently under consideration and a proposal will be defined by early spring. Throughout spring and early summer several public information meetings will be held to further the plan. Everyone is encouraged to attend the SBCFC meetings and provide comment. Minutes, agendas, and meeting notices can be found on the Town of Old Lyme web site under the “Boards and Commission” page.
The members of the SBCFC;
Frank Pappalardo – Chairperson - (Sound View Beach Association)
Michaelle Pearson- Secretary - (Sound View Beach Association)
Gail Fuller - (Sound View Beach Association / Beach Improvement Committee)
David Griswold – (Black Hall Beach Association / Federation of Beaches)
Harry S. Plaut – (Old Colony Beach Association / Federation of Beaches)
Alternates:
Russell Carlo - (Sound View Beach Association)
Joann Lishing - (Sound View Beach Association)
Submitted
Frank Pappalardo – Chairperson
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Throughout the summer and fall months of 2008 members of the SVBA have been regularly attending Old Lyme Board of Selectmen’s meetings. Our goal has been to bring to the attention of our selectmen the uniqueness of the Sound View community and the health, safety and quality of life issues facing the residents. Although issues such as; overcrowding, traffic, public intoxication, parking etc. have been discussed on previous years, this year we made repeated, persistent and detailed accounts of these concerns. The detail and persistence of our testimony has resulted in a major initiative and a significant step forward. In a joint effort with the selectmen the formation of a committee to study the creation of a Sound View Beach Commission has been created. With the assistance of SVBA members Frank Pappalardo and Angelo Faenza, selectman Skip Sibley drafted and presented the motion at the November 3, 2008 Selectmen’s meeting, it was seconded by Bonnie Reemsnyder and passed.
Board of Selectmen Motion (passed on 11/3/08)
“To create a committee (to be referred as the "Sound View Beach Commission Formation Committee"; "SBCFC") which would serve as an advisory committee to the Old Lyme Board of Selectmen (“OL BOS”).
Their purpose would be to:
1) Investigate the effectiveness of creating a Sound View Beach Commission. This would include looking at various beach commissions from other towns and designing one that would be a best fit for the Sound View Beach area.
2) During its existence, this committee may also come forward with recommendations for: improvement, safety, health, and quality of life issues relating to Sound View as well as proposed solutions to the OL BOS.
Membership to the committee shall include a written application process, which will be reviewed & selected by the OL BOS. Ad-hoc members may include the OL BOS, the OL Fire Marshal, OL Park & Recreation Director, and OL Police, Fire & Ambulance representative and any other interested OL board or commission.
The OL BOS has a commitment to furthering the establishment of a vehicle that will adequately address the unique issues of Sound View and will commit to fully reviewing the SBCFC recommendations and findings as proposed and will take necessary actions as appropriate.”
On November 14 notification was sent to all SVBA members who have listed an active email address on file, included was the Motion as passed and an application for membership on the committee. Membership was open to all town residents / property owners. A total of 14 applications were received. A special meeting of the selectmen occurred on January 26 2009 and the selection of committee members was announced. They are: Frank Pappalardo, Gail Fuller, Michaelle Pearson, David Griswold, and Harry Plaut, with two alternates Russ Carlo and Michele Zito.
The initial meeting will take place the end of February. More information will be sent email as available
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Old Lyme Board of Selectmen
Regular Meeting Friday, August 1, 2008
4. Old Business:
c. Proposal to Purchase South Chapel Lot from Christ the King-
According to zoning regulations, the 0.55 lot can support a 6,000 square foot building (the future public safety facility). There is a buyer interested in purchasing the Chapel who would like to use the lot for church service parking on Sundays and one week night. Attorney Clarke has drawn up a lease agreement to allow the purchaser of the South Lyme Chapel to use the lot to park up to 25 vehicles for church services only. The buyer of the Chapel would be required to have a trained parking attendant/crossing guard on duty when the parking was in use and to provide proof of insurance to the town. The buyer of the Chapel would pay the Town $5,200 per year (with annual increases) in advance to use the lot. The town will not allow the lot to be used for public beach parking. After some discussion the following resolution was proposed.
Resolved: To recommend to a Special Town Meeting that the Town purchase the South Chapel Lot at 290 Shore Road for $227,000 (plus closing costs and transaction fees), with a minimum of 50% of the purchase price to be paid from the Sound View Parking Lot Account and the balance to be paid from the Town’s Undesignated Surplus Account. Further, that there be no use of the parking lot for public parking for the beach areas.
Selectwoman Reemsnyder moved to accept the resolution and Selectman Sibley seconded the motion. SO VOTED.
Selectman Sibley and Selectwoman Reemsnyder asked to have the agreement checked by another lawyer to prevent a conflict of interest problem with Attorney Clarke and the Christ the King Church.
Special Town Meeting – Purchase of South Chapel Lot from Christ the King – Tuesday 26 August 2008 – Middle School Auditorium
According to Mr. Griswold, as he assured the attendees at the August 19, 2008 Selectmen’s meeting, the complete details regarding the purchase agreement should be posted on the Town of Old Lyme web site http://www.oldlyme-ct.gov
If any questions call direct: to Timothy C. Griswold, First Selectman phone 434-1605 x211
posted 8-21-08
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HEAT ADVISORY INFORMATION
During the summer months, certain weather conditions produce unfavorable conditions which may effect the health of certain persons. The State of Connecticut has recommended that local municipalities establish Cooling Centers for vulnerable residents when heat advisories are issued.
The location of the Cooling Center for affected residents of the Towns of Lyme and Old Lyme is the Lymes’ Senior Center at 26 Town Woods Road Old Lyme
Should a heat advisory be issued, residents are urged to check the following for announcements regarding opening of their local Cooling Center.
WFSB-3, WTNH-8, WVIT-30 television, www.lymeline.com
Comcast Public Access Channel 14, Municipal Websites
When in operation during heat advisories, the Cooling Center will be open until 8:00 PM. Please contact the Lymes’ Senior Center (434-4127) or your local Town Hall (Old Lyme 434-1605; Lyme: 434-7733) with questions.
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Landfill
Phase I of the Landfill Closure Project, constructing the Transfer Station, has been completed and we plan to open the Transfer Station on Monday June 23rd. The new facility features a scale that will be used to weigh residents? vehicles as they enter the Transfer Station. Residents will be charged to dispose of bulky waste at the rate of 5.5 cents per pound or $110 per ton, with a minimum fee of $5.00. This will fund the expense the Town will incur to ship the bulky waste out of town. The Town is operating under a consent order with the State of CT to open the Transfer Station and to discontinue use of the landfill. We ask residents not to mix recycle items with bulky waste items because that will require extra processing that will tend to slow things down. Other improvements include an upgraded traffic pattern, improved loading areas and a generally more attractive facility. Residents will still be able to bring recyclable items to the Transfer Station as they have in the past. Please consult the attached Transfer Station Fee Schedule to see what items may be recycled and any related costs. Please bear in mind that recycling saves the Town about $50 per ton as opposed to the cost of trash disposal and it is the right thing to do for the environment. For more information about the Transfer Station operation, visit Transfer Station Information.
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Mosquito Control
Each year the town of Old Lyme sprays selected streets for mosquito control. These streets are chosen upon request only. In order for your street to be included you must call and make a specific request.
Contact the First Selectmen’s office: (860) 434-1121 give your name and Old Lyme street address.
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Non-functioning street lights should be reported to the town. Contact the First Selectmen’s office: (860) 434-1121, Give the location of the pole and the pole number (each utility pole should have a number inscribed on the side)
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In order to assist us with follow-up:
Please notify the SVBA with the date you called and your request (e.g. Mosquito or Light). You may contact the SVBA through the "Contact" page on this web site.
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