{"content":[{"text":"Minutes","bbox":{"left":0.426226,"top":0.133586,"width":0.14860699999999993,"height":0.035354}},{"text":"Norwich Trails Committee and volunteers monthly meeting \n 7 pm, July 7, 2021 \n Location: Kearney-Niles Pavilion, Huntley Meadows","bbox":{"left":0.177778,"top":0.188826,"width":0.644131,"height":0.06948200000000004}},{"text":"Attendees: \n Norwich Trails Committee (NTC) members present: Craig Layne and Cody Williams Absent: David \n Hubbard \n Volunteers and members of the public: Nick Krembs (facilitator), Stephen Flanders (scribe), \n George Clark, Jim Faughnan, Bob Fisken, Elisabeth Hammer, Doug Hardy, Cathie Redpath, and \n approximately nine other members of the public \n AGENDA \n 1. Approval of agenda –Krembs opened the meeting at 7:10. He introduced himself as \n facilitator, introduced the two Norwich Trails Committee members present, the scribe, and \n described the distinction in roles between the appointed committee members and the \n volunteers. He asked for a show of hands to identify the agenda-topic interests of those \n present and chose to move items 9 (Feedback on the Appalachian Trail Corridor) and 10 \n (discussion of Burton Woods Road) to the front of the agenda. \n 2. Comments from those present—These comments occurred as the meeting closed. A trail \n user from Hanover recommended that trail blazes be visible each from the preceding and \n that a different color from blue to aid those with vision impairments. Thanks were rendered \n by Bernie Waugh for the work of the Norwich Trails volunteers and by George Clark to \n Flanders and the Norwich Historical Society (NHS) for arranging future meetings in the NHS \n facility. \n Trail infrastructure \n Items 9 and 10 were brought forward out of the regular order: \n 9. Feedback on Appalachian Trail Corridor—Krembs noted that there had been correspondence \n critical of the US Forest Service (USFS) proposal to designate three trails within the Appalachian \n Trail (AT) corridor in Norwich. He invited Doug Hardy to give historical background on the \n question of allowing trails within the corridor. \n Hardy spoke, regarding the establishment of the AT corridor, the presence of unofficial trails \n within the corridor, the USFS efforts to minimize those trails, and the NTC efforts to gain \n recognition for certain trails. Krembs and Flanders noted that, after discussions with the USFS, \n the NTC sought recognition of five trails, but that only three had been proposed for official \n designation by the USFS. \n Elliot Fisher spoke to a petition that he helped circulate, signed by 51 Norwich residents, \n seeking a pause in designation of trails, until further consideration could be given to some \n unofficial trails that the USFS designated for closure in its proposal. Hardy and John Wiggin","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.276932,"width":0.764669,"height":0.6166610000000001}},{"text":"Norwich Trails","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.93575,"width":0.11878600000000002,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"norwichtrails.org","bbox":{"left":0.43317,"top":0.93575,"width":0.134353,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"norwichtrails@gmail.com","bbox":{"left":0.67799,"top":0.93575,"width":0.204333,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.447712,"top":0.045455,"width":0.104575,"height":0.080808}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.447712,"top":0.045455,"width":0.104575,"height":0.080808}]}