Pittsfield Planning Board
Town Hall, 85 Main Street
Pittsfield, NH 03263

DATE: Thursday, March 15, 2012

No tape recorder was available for tonight’s meeting.

AGENDA ITEM 1: Call to Order

Chair Ted Mitchell called the meeting to order at 7:05 P.M.

AGENDA ITEM 2: Roll Call

Members present: Jim Pritchard (JP, associate member), Pat Heffernan (PH, associate member), Gerard Leduc (GL, selectmen’s ex officio), and Ted Mitchell (TM, chair).

Members absent: Clayton Wood (CW, vice-chair, excused absence because of school district meeting), Ray Conner (RC, alternate), Peter Dow (PD, alternate), and Fred Hast (FH, selectmen’s ex officio alternate).

Members of the public appearing before the planning board: Bill Miskoe.

AGENDA ITEM 3: Approval of Minutes of February 16, 2012

JP moved to approve the minutes as written in draft.

TM seconded the motion.

PH said that he had not read the minutes and will abstain from the vote.

JP asked for the following change:
Agenda Item 5, (page 6): change “voters should have to right to vote” to “voters should have the right to vote”.

GL asked for the following change:
Agenda Item 5, (page 5): change “voter fraud” to “election fraud”.

JP asked GL whether GL were sure that the term that CW had used was “election fraud”.

GL said, “yes.”

JP said that he, JP, would have to review the tape because JP thought that “voter fraud” as written was correct.

TM withdrew his second of JP’s motion to approve the minutes as written in draft.

JP withdrew his motion to approve the minutes as written in draft.

JP moved to defer approval of the minutes to the next planning board meeting.

GL seconded the motion.

Vote to defer approval of the minutes to the next planning board meeting: carried 4 – 0 – 0. (Voting “yes”: JP, PH, GL, and TM. Voting “no”: none. Abstaining: none.)

AGENDA ITEM ADDED: Cell Telephone Tower in Newmarket

PH moved that the cell telephone tower in Newmarket is not regional impact to Pittsfield.

GL seconded the motion.

Discussion: None.

Vote that the cell telephone tower in Newmarket is not regional impact to Pittsfield: carried 4 – 0 – 0. (Voting “yes”: JP, PH, GL, and TM. Voting “no”: none. Abstaining: none.)

AGENDA ITEM 4: Members Concerns

No members concerns

AGENDA ITEM 8: Public Input

Bill Miskoe said that, because of a prior commitment to a course that he is taking in Laconia, he asks for a leave of absence from the planning board during all of April and the first meeting in May. He will try to attend the first meeting in April, but he will be late, and he would like the board to reschedule the meeting to 7:30 P.M. so that he can participate in any important votes, such as the vote for chair.

JP said that CW is the vice-chair and will be the acting chair for the first meeting in April. Consequently, CW has authority to reschedule the meeting. JP suggested that Bill Miskoe contact CW and ask CW to reschedule the meeting.

Bill Miskoe said that he knew how to contact CW.

Bill Miskoe said, “The voting on Tuesday really kicked the snot out of the planning board.”

AGENDA ITEM 9: Adjournment

PH moved to adjourn the meeting.

GL seconded the motion.

Vote to adjourn the planning board meeting of March 15, 2012: carried 4 – 0 – 0. (Voting “yes”: JP, PH, GL, and TM. Voting “no”: none. Abstaining: none.) The planning board meeting of March 15, 2012, is adjourned at 7:14 P.M.

Minutes approved: April 5, 2012

______________________________ _____________________
Clayton Wood, Chairman Date

I transcribed these minutes (not verbatim) on March 15, 2012, at approximately 8:00 P.M. from notes that I made during the planning board meeting on March 15, 2012, and from memory.

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Jim Pritchard, planning board recorder and associate member

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