July 23, 2014 Minutes

Pittsfield Economic Development Committee
July 23, 2014

1. Meeting opened at 5:31.

2. Attendees: Ted Mitchell (TM), Lyn Roberts (LR), Linda Small (LS), Paul Sherwood (PSh),
Susan Muenzinger (SM), and Ellen Barbasso (EB).

3. Minutes for July 9, 2014 were accepted and approved.

4. Downtown window decoration
A. Stores fronts we want to use are: Town Pizza, Volpe Rental office, Village Pizza, and Elm Grove.
B. TM will draft a letter to those stores

5. Cortese’s business
A. They are working on the building

6. Citizens Bank community assistance
A. People in the local office unable to track down people in the state who know any thing about it
B. Are they required to give grant money to communities?
C. TM will send a letter to branch office in Manchester to see if fthey know the information

7. Other
A. Irving property-no updated information.
1. Will follow up to clean up the space
2. They probably will not donate the property to the town.
B. The letter from the Select Board to the DOT was brought up at the last meeting-it will be sent out
C. Sage Wellness
1. They did not get any response from the local farmers, so she is not doing it this year
2. Will work on getting it set up for next summer
3. Suggest she contact Granite State Natural Foods-it will draw people who may want massages
as well
D. EDC may invite Granite State Natural Foods to one of our meetings as a potential business for
Pittsfield

8. AMENICO garden clean up Friday July 25 at 5:30 P.M.

9. Next EDC meeting will be August 13, 2014 at 5:30 P.M.

10. Meeting closed at 6:15 P.M.

Submitted by:
Ted Mitchell, Chairman
Minutes taken by: Ellen Barbasso, Secretary