Board of Directors Meeting

1. Minutes of the previous meeting (12 Sept. 2006) were accepted as written.

2. Old Business

A. Car-Free®

We request Barry Andelman ask Andy Rubel attend the next Board meeting. Ernie: Ask the APT List for volunteers for an update/addendum to the current edition. One page, as seen in some recently sold issues, is not enough. This book ought to be in every college bookstore in Boston.

B. John Hostage Initiatives.

(1) Annual meeting proposal. Rick checked with a lawyer, who advised him to be very careful with it, because it would change the way officers are elected.

John: The Board agrees about what we want to do, and in the spring, the proposals would be on the agenda to be effective with the general meeting of the following year.

(a) Motion by John Hostage, seconded by Romin Koebel, to move the proposed motion forward about the Annual Meeting.

(b) The second part is to change the By-laws only by the general membership.

Approved.

(c) MBTA meeting publicity (Ref.: Paragraph 3 of the 12 Sep 06 minutes)

Motion by John Hostage, seconded by Barry Steinberg, to replace the wording of the previous approved motion with re-written text (see appendix to these minutes).

Comment: We should approve it and put it on the web site, the newsletter, and a background letter to T General Manager Grabauskas. This should be considered a clarification of our previous statement.

The resolution was approved.

3. Reports

A. Rick Arena.

Jim Brennan should be thanked for letting us use the Acela Lounge.

Thanks to Ernie for getting the newsletter formatted and distributed.

The North-South Rail Link: A public statement was made by the consortium, of which APT is a member, supporting the proposal.

We should grow the Board membership, but with active people rather than names who will only raise the size of the quorum, and whose non-attendance makes the Board operation difficult.

The Board mailings include sending of these minutes to several non-Board members. We should review this policy. Barry Steinberg should send the Board a list of who (member or non-member) gets these mailings.

B. John Hostage

We have 135 paid members, the highest number since the year 2000. Regarding the Greenbush trip, 16 people have signed up.

C. Rick: Do we want a membership directory? Everyone would be included unless they opt out on the membership form. We should have special recognition for higher-level members, ‘donor members’.

D. Ernie: The next newsletter ought to go out in December/January. He needs material.

E. Vince: His COGNET proposals have not yet developed traction. It seems that the political season has deadened any transportation initiatives for the time being.

F. Romin has been pushing the historical north-south trolley. Rick: They are building on the corridor; the NS trolley is going to be impeded.

A paper was written about commuter rail operations into north and south stations for push in, pull out. What is new about this is a proposal for publicized connections so that a train from one route would convert to another route. This would make connections from train to train more convenient.

G. Vic Campbell on Greenbush.

The Mass. Bay Railroad Enthusiasts sent a targeted southeast Mass. mailing featuring several trips including the APT Greenbush trip. Rick: Our thanks to the MBRRE for their efforts.

There should be a letter of confirmation sent out to the attendees our trip not later than Friday, 20 October. It ought to specify connections and exact parking locations. It should be a form letter, with checkoff of what items have been reserved.

4. New Business

Motion by Vincent Dixon, seconded by John Hostage:

Resolved: That Wainwright Bank & Trust Company of Boston, Massachusetts, is hereby designated as a depository of this corporation with authority to accept at any time for the credit of this corporation deposits by whomsoever made of funds in whatever form and in whatever manner endorsed.

Resolved: That until receipt of a certified copy of a resolution to the contrary said Wainwright Bank & Trust Company is authorized and directed to pay or otherwise honor from the funds of this corporation on deposit with it, without inquiry as to whether the same be required for this corporation’s business or benefit, checks, drafts, notes, bills of exchange, acceptances, undertakings and other instruments or order for the payment, transfer or withdrawal of money for whatever purpose and to whomsoever payable, including those drawn to the individual order of a signer when signed, accepted, or endorsed by any/all of the following officers of this corporation: John Hostage and Richard J. Arena.

Resolved: That the Clerk-Secretary of this corporation be and hereby is authorized to certify to said Wainwright Bank & Trust Company the names of the persons holding the offices of this corporation authorized to sign and act for it as hereinabove provided and the offices respectively held by them, together with specimens of their signatures, and that said Wainwright Bank & Trust Company is hereby authorized and directed to rely on such certification as to the identity of the persons holding said offices until it receives a new certificate from the Clerk-Secretary notifying it of any change.

Approved.

5. Good and Welfare.

Romin spoke with James O’Leary of the Mass. Bay Commuter Railroad, who is willing to help us on Car-Free® updates.

6. The meeting adjourned 9:05 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

BARRY M. STEINBERG

Clerk

Appendix 1:

Text of a Resolution Relative to Announcements of Semi-Official Meetings:

Whereas there are often local planning meetings that have significant impact on MBTA facilities or operations programming, and

Whereas meetings sponsored by neighborhood groups or local officials sometimes have limited publicity, and

Whereas this limited publicity can restrict public participation and skew the results of the meeting, and

Whereas broad public participation is an important part of successful public transportation planning, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Association for Public Transportation calls on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and its contractors to conduct effective advertising through press releases, advertisements in local newspapers, and notices posted in the affected stations or other facilities, when public meetings or hearings are to be held concerning MBTA projects or planning, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Association for Public Transportation calls on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to make a good-faith effort to publicize meetings concerning transportation projects and planning in which it participates, even when such meetings are sponsored by outside organizations and individuals.

Approved by the Board of Directors October 12, 2006.

Barry M. Steinberg

Clerk of the Corporation