The South Shore Road Advisory Committee (SSRAC) met Wednesday at the Church at 4:30. Attending were Win Anderson, Marc Caputo, Anne Casperson, Darcy Daniells, Paula Dekker, Roz Glasser, Tony Maggi, David McKibben, Jim Nichol, Bruce Rooney, Sally Smith, Edith Walden, and Dennis Wyatt,. Absent were Susan Ferrell, Carl Meinzinger, Jon Prescott, and Connie Snell. Susie Fox attended as a visitor.

Jim Nichol led the meeting. The minutes were adopted.

Three short/intermediate proposals were discussed. Jim Nichol suggested that we adopt David McKibben’s proposal to move the road north 25 feet just at the places where the road was in imminent danger of collapse. Dennis Wyatt reintroduced his proposal to limit vehicular traffic on South Shore Road from the chicken foot intersection to Guemes Island Road to local access only. The third proposal was to leave things as they are and move on to finding a long-term solution. Committee members discussed support and objections to each proposal. No consensus was reached, except general frustration at how difficult the problem is.

A request was made for confirmation or denial from the County that if the road was changed exclusively to local access, that the County would no longer consider the road as public, requiring adjacent property owners to take responsibility for maintenance, etc.

The discussion of short/intermediate solutions was tabled in favor of looking at long-term solutions, particularly since a few members indicated a willingness to consider the road further inland.

In order to allow county representatives to meet with the committee more frequently when necessary, Committee members agreed to meet earlier in the day occasionally in order to save the expense of overtime.

Joseph Miller has built a website on LineTime for the committee. The minutes will still appear as a link on the main page of LineTime.

The agenda for next week will be to look at property maps and brainstorm possible long-term (50-100 years) solutions.

The meeting was adjourned.

Submitted by Edith Walden