South Hero Recreation Commission Monthly Meeting
Agenda for January 21, 2025
Topic: SHRC Monthly Zoom Meeting
Time: January21, 7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Location: Zoom Meeting. Phil will open the meeting on Zoom remotely. If anyone wants to attend in person please
contact Sue to coordinate securing the Town Hall meeting room and keys.
Philip H Scott is inviting you to a scheduled SHRC Zoom meeting.
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Agenda
1. Call to order
2. Approve prior meeting minutes
3. Adjustments to the agenda
4. Public Q&A and updates
5. Discussion Items
Updates from Town Select Board at last meeting – Sue (if any)
Toddler Time” in the gym at Folsom on Sundays from 10-11:30 for the winter – Whitney Doremus
and Dylan.
Passes for skating and Catamount Outdoor Center update – Rosemary
SHRC annual summary submitted. Email from Phil copied to all.
Trail updates – Guy provided an update regarding the SH Rec trail at Folsom – also known as the
David Hobbs trail. Guy will ask Don and Bernadette Pearson about signage to honor the Eagle
Scouts and Pearson child that was the impetus for building the ADA accessible trail.
Clarify any remaining confusions re. the Smugglers Notch Ski program and Masonic temple
donations – Dillan
Winter Volleyball –Dillan
Note from Guy Maguire copied below.
Miscellaneous / open discussion
5. Agenda Items for the February meeting
6. Summary of action items from this meeting
7. Adjournment
Note from Guy:
“Lavin Property – trails and park idea. I would love to be able to talk about this with you all in person, but since I can’t be there, I wanted to give
you all a summary of on what we’re thinking over at SHLT, for you all to consider. Maybe we can talk about it more at the Feb meeting.
Specifically, as the Lavin parcels are purchased by the town, we have an opportunity for trails and rec. Dave Carter from the selectboard
approached SHLT asking if we had any ideas for the back two parcels, and so we thought it might be a good time to resurrect the idea of a trail
through the property, connecting the rec park trails to the community lane area.
This has long been a goal of SHLT, and the rec commission, back in the day when Dave Hobbs was involved. At one point we even had grant
funding for building a trail, but then Marty Lavin dropped us at the last minute. I think there would be broad community benefit from a trail, both
as a safe route between the school and library for students, but also for community members for walking, biking, etc. to and from school, as a rec
path.
We could also consider turning that back portion of the property, with the wetlands, into a town park/natural area, either by itself, or as an
extension of the rec park, since they are contiguous.
There is septic in there as well, which would be on the park land, or you could adjust the boundaries to make that separate, however it would
work. And, as most of that back area where a park could be is mostly wetlands and wetland buffers, so not much potential for development.
I have attached a (very) rough map that I sketched up – an idea of the trail and park area, just to get the conversation started. I also attached the
subdivision plan, in case you want that for reference.
So yeah, if you have time at the meeting, chat about that, let me know what you think. I can also bring this to the feb meeting
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y7QVOV0-wp0Qb40_-xpQvaRkD2lGWiO7/edit