Wind Turbine Options Select Board Meeting Room ??? On Wednesday Jan 23 ,2013 a meeting will be held in a room that only holds around twenty people ?

To date nearly 400,000.00 has been spent on wind turbine negotiations and after 26 meetings and eight months are they going to hold the last meeting in a small room ? Does a small room limit the amount of public input ?

Are there more than twenty seats in the SelectBoard Meeting Room ?

http://www.falmouthmass.us/agenda.php?depkey=selectmen&number=5346

NO BOARD OF SELECTMEN MEETING TODAY - Happy MLK Jr. Day!
Next Meeting
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013 – 6:30 P.M.

SELECTMEN’S MEETING ROOM

AGENDA
1. Selectmen Discuss and Vote Process
2. Public Comment – Wind Turbine Options

The Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association held a meeting in the Selectmens Meeting Room in 2006 .At that time the capacity of the room was twenty .

Many towns have held meetings about wind turbines .Recently in Fairhaven ,Massachusetts. The Board of Health held a meeting for residents who had filed almost 400 noise complaints. The room was much too small and the local fire chief had to send people home . This "roon to small" news story ran in every newspaper in the state.

It must be posted how many people can fit in these public meeting rooms and the SelectBoard must be well aware of the amount of people who can fit in this room.

This is a room full of people with headaches and sleep deprivation and frayed nerves for the last three years that are going to be asked to be jammed into a small room and limit their public input for a minute or two ?

Holding public meetings in small rooms limits the amount of public testimony and time that resident / abutters can testify . This is last of twenty six meetings over eight months and almost 400 thousand dollars and they are holding a meeting in a room that only holds twenty people ?

WTOP Final Report and the documents located in the appendices:

http://www.cbuilding.org/wtop-final-report

This page can also be accessed from the WTOP website by navigating to the righthand sidebar titled WTOP Documents, then clicking on WTOP Final Report.

Guys! This is a report to the Selectman. The report will be given in the room in which the Selectman meet. It is not uncommon, when there is an item of high interest, for there to be too many people to fit into that room: I myself have stood in the hall or outside under the awning more than once. If more people wish to speak than can be accommodated in the room (which holds many more than 20 by the way) then once people speak, they can leave to make room for others.

Also, I'm almost sure that it's wrong to treat this as some "Come to Jes*s" meeting. The Selectman will receive this report for the 1st time at this meeting, hear comment and - having received it - begin a process of reviewing it and making decisions based upon it (hopefully, anyway having spent $400K).

Let's chill out here. There's no need to make every single event related to the Falmouth turbine into a passion play!

Alright, but if you insist on blowing everything up into something big you're going to lose credibility.

I keep trying to tell Mark to chill some on things. To pick the situations in which he makes big stinks and uses aggressive language. I'm with you on the overall turbine issue, but you guys need to avoid being taken as shrill over-reactors. And believe me, many in town think of the most prominent anti-turbine people that way and that causes them to be ignored. "Oh it's just so-and-so overreacting" they think. And that hurts the cause rather than helps it.

This is a minor thing. It should be treated as such.

I agree with Bill Carson, a court case would be a fine thing for the Town. Because the law requires proof of harm -- exaggeration and repetition of unsubstantiated nonsense won't cut it. Then we could put this expensive hysteria behind us.