DRAFT

Meeting was called to order by Peter Griffin at 7:00 PM at the Pembroke Academy room 2021.

Attendees:

Name Phone E-mail

Peter Griffin *(603) 898-2940 peter.griffin@fmr.com

Stephen R. Piper *(603) 419-0121 TwoXSP@aol.com

Cara Torrey-Nagy *(603) 798-5844 C_torrey@Minerva.snhu.edu

Almos Nagy *(603) 798-5844 Almos_@hotmail.com

Linda Johnson

John Palmer *(603) 432-5216 WNPRR@juno.com

George Katsakiores *(603) 434-9587

Gus Sheedy *(603) 432-3183

Winthrop Buswell(302) 530-4244 winbuzz@hotmail.com

Bill Johnson(603) 522-9040 William.Johnson@agedwards.com

Conrad Young(603) 224-6361

*Current members

Tonight’s meeting began with the distribution of a draft brochure for the members and attendees to review and comment on. This brochure contains information about the organization and what rail initiatives it embraces. Also contained therein are some facts pertaining to rail safety, air pollution, federal subsidies, national passenger ridership, highway construction costs, etc. There is contact and membership information on the back as well as some other related web sites. These brochures, once finalized, will be distributed throughout NH communities by the NHRRA membership.

After a brief introduction by president Peter Griffin, Stephen Piper gave a slide show presentation also for review and comment by the attendees. This slide show was intended to depict the objectives of NHRRA in a visual sense through the use of photographs, maps, graphs, and text with commentary provided by the presenter.

Upon completion of the presentation a brief question and answer period followed with subsequent discussions pertaining to specific routes and their associated potentials for upgrade. Also discussed was the viability of creating similar slide presentations unique to the specific corridors for presentations in those immediate communities.

Cara contacted the Renaissance Program prior to tonight’s meeting to provide information for their newsletter. The result was free advertising for the meeting that went into the local newspaper as an enclosure and distributed to 70,000 households in the community.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM.

Next meeting: Monday, February 24 at 7 PM, Pembroke Academy

Minutes by: Stephen R. Piper