Tuesday Night's Board of Selectmen meeting was more than just phone books and commendations.
Some of the big stories from the Selectmen's meeting on Tuesday night were the suggestion by fourth and fifth graders of a phone book opt-in program, and commendations for Brookline Police officers. There was a full meeting scheduled with other items for discussion. Students from the Park School's fourth and fifth grade classes presented their ideas for a phonebook opt-in program. Five students wrote letters, and read them to the Selectmen petitioning them to reduce waste by passing a bill which would provide phonebooks only to those who use them. The Selectmen unanimously voted to put the matter before the Selectmen's Climate Action Committee, who will help the kids put together a Town Meeting Warrant Article. The Brookline Police also …
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Fourth and fifth graders suggest an Opt-in registry to decrease number of unused phone books.
During last night's Selectmen's meeting, a number of students from the Park School presented their vision for a greener Brookline in the form of an opt-in program to eliminate unused phone books. With the help of their teacher Ted Wells, five students from Brookline presented letters to the Board of Selectmen. According to a survey of 118 Brookline residents performed by the students, 97% of respondants say they use their phone book "rarely" to "never," meaning between zero and 12 times per year. Of that same group, 53% said they also recycle the phonebook. "You have lowered the age of the people hanging out in the sixth floor of Town Hall considerably" Selectman Jesse Mermell joked. "I chair the Selectmen's Climate Action Committee, …
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Mark Miller
1:05 pm on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
@MoonBeamWatcher. FYI...many people that come to the Farmer's Market (please note that I have NO association with it), come on foot. We live in CC and have no CAR...that being said the street where we do live is OFTEN filled with merchant parking tags (on a daily basis)...making it impossible to park in front of my own dwelling (if I had a car) or for others to do so. This is an impact that we … more ›