Town of Liberty Comprehensive Planning Committee
July 6, 2026 Meeting Minutes
Prepared by: Nicole Rakobitsch
Attendance: Martin Chapin, Susan Mueller, Nicole Rakobitsch, Bill Townsley, Carrie Vanek
- Meeting was called to order at 6:32 pm by Vanek.
- Approval of June 1, 2026 minutes
- Vanek made a motion to approve minutes as written, Chapin seconded.
- Public Comment
- Regarding question #19 in the survey and sorting the respondents based on if they live on a gravel road or not – Vanek unable to easily determine physical property address for all respondents (because data was not available) and thus was unsuccessful in this request made by Chris Abrahamson.
- Continue survey analysis and implementation of data into the comprehensive plan.
- Mueller showed the committee different options for pie charts for “Why Land was purchased”, “Zoning and Land Use” survey question responses. Committee prefers the option of pie slices with white space separating them. Mueller will adjust colors to make them more distinct from each other.
- Committee reviewed summary tables Rakobitsch prepared for questions #14 and #26. Q#26 – instead of “unclassified” call it “non- specific or “unspecified.” Mueller made a motion to approve using these tables as a template for all the open-ended survey responses. Vanek seconded.
- All open-ended comments will be posted on the Towns website without names and only the summary tables in the updated Comprehensive Plan.
- Committee agreed that comments that the town has no purview over will not be included in the summary tables.
- Townsley suggested we capture how Liberty has changed over the last 20-50 years. Perhaps put in the Introduction. Committee agreed to create the introduction last and have it be sort of a summary.
- Committee homework:
- Rakobitsch to create themes from question #28.
- Vanek will sort the open-ended responses by survey respondent number so that responses are listed numerically under each question.
- Mueller and Vanek will create content to summarize the charts/graphs they created.
- Mueller will adjust colors in the pie charts to make them more distinct from each other.
- All committee members to come with ideas for Chapter 3.
- Future agenda items
- Creating Chapter 3 in the new plan, how to restructure it.
- Review committee homework.
- Confirm August 3 meeting date
- Committee confirmed August 3 meeting
- Meeting adjourned
- Mueller made a motion to adjourn at 7:26 pm, Rakobitsch seconded. All in favor, adjourned.
