Montachusett Regional Planning Commission

FITCHBURG CITY CLERK Aug 28 2024 10:50 am MONTACHUSETT REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION (MRPC) REMOTE MEETING ONLY THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024, 7:00 PM MRPC MEETING MATERIALS: August 8, 2024 MRPC Meeting Material MINUTES 1. Open Meeting, Introductions and Announcements Chairperson L. Shifrin called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – present K. Nartowicz – present A. Pease – present B. Yocum – present D. Valliere – present P. Cunningham – present R. Bialecki – present A. Reid – present K. Munroe – present This meeting is held under Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2023, signed by Governor Healey on March 29, 2023, allowing local and regional governments to hold public meetings remotely or in a hybrid fashion. All votes will be taken by roll call. 2. MRPC Minutes – June 6, 2024 – Approval of Commissioners Requested R. Swartz moved to approve the June 6, 2024 minutes, the motion was seconded. P. Cunningham noted that on page 8 of the minutes there is a spelling error. H. Ford will make the correction to the minutes and save the revised minutes in the handout folder. 1  Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes B. Yocum – yes K. Munroe – yes D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – abstain A. Reid – yes 3. Cash Schedule – June and July 2024 – Acceptance of Commissioners Requested R. Swartz presented the June 2024 cash schedule. The opening balance for June 1, 2024, $549,829.78, total receipts, and transfers for the month $141,589.86, total cash on hand before this warrant $691,419.64, less the amount of this warrant $271,971.79, left a balance after the warrant of $419,447.85. R. Swartz presented the July 2024 cash schedule. The opening balance for July 1, 2024, $419,447.85, total receipts, and transfers for the month $247,091.10, total cash on hand before this warrant $666,58,95, less the amount of this warrant $209,692.97, left a balance after the warrant of $456,845.98. Chairperson L. Shifrin asked for a motion to accept the June and July cash schedules as presented subject to audit. Having no objections, R. Swartz moved to accept the June and July 2024 cash schedules as presented subject to audit. The motion was seconded. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes B. Yocum – yes K. Munroe – yes D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – yes P. Duffy - yes A. Reid – yes 4. Guest Announcements and Questions No announcements or questions were presented 2 5. Administrative Matters – Presented by G. Eaton 5.1 Continued Internship for G. Goodlett – Action Requested REPORT Gregor Goodlett was hired as a summer intern and approved to work a maximum of 12 weeks. He is a student at Wheaton College and plans on graduating in 2024. Mr. Goodlett is working towards a minor in Urban Studies hoping to one day pursue a master’s in urban planning with a focus in Architecture. Mr. Goodlett has been an asset with assisting the Planning and Development Department with the Digital Equity Planning (DEP) program as managed by the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) and MassTechnology Collaborative (MassTech). As Gregor enters his final semester in college, he has requested approval of his practicum for the fall. If approved by the Commissioners, he will continue working on Digital Equity outreach. He will also gather data and produce documents that will be used in the eight municipal digital equity plans that we are currently working on. Based on the positive feedback from Jeff Legros, Senior Planner and Team Leader on the DEP project, and Karen Chapman, Planning and Development Director the Executive Director supports his request to complete his practicum, as an Intern working online with a minimum of eight hours weekly, and a maximum of 15 hours weekly from August 26, 2024 through December 6, 2024. RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED that the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission authorizes management’s request to offer temporary employment as an Intern to Gregor Goodlett to complete a practicum at Wheaton College during the dates specified above. P. Cunningham moved to accept the resolution as presented. The motion was seconded. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes G. Tillotson - yes B. Yocum – yes K. Munroe – yes D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – yes P. Duffy - yes A. Reid – yes 3 5.2 Town Planner Services Directive – Information Only MRPC is now well positioned to deliver town planning services to its municipalities. The agency’s Planning and Development Department has at least three to four employees who have worked directly with local planning boards in Massachusetts managing local permitting, zoning, site plan review, and related tasks. Karen Chapman, Planning and Development Director and the Executive Director have been in communication with the outgoing and new Town Administrators in Lunenburg on this topic. Karen submitted a scope of services and related cost to deliver these services to the Town. K. Chapman added our proposal is that we would offer up to 15 hours/week, review applications, write decision, provide guidance to the planning board and attend the planning board meetings. If accepted, we would be starting on September 3rd. 5.3 “Unfortunate Oversight:” Senate Drops Devens Committee, Adds DEC to Devens Housing Working Group – Information Only Chairperson Laura Shifrin, asked to place this issue on the August agenda of the Commissioners and welcomed input from all concerning the ramifications of this proposal. G. Tillotson shared his view as such; there are groups of people from the towns of Shirley, Harvard and Ayer who are part of the Devens Framework Committee. This committee has been meeting for years. There are also other local committees that work up through the Framework Committee to get a resolution on Devens. Harvard has a very active group working on the Devens issue. When the House and Senate took up the latest bill, the group was left off the bill and the don’t have a seat and are now unable to talk which means they are left out of the decision-making process. Mr. Tillotson’s understanding is that the Senate or the House are discussing this issue right now as it didn’t get passed with the last budget. Lancaster, Shirley, Harvard and Ayer are the four communities within which Devens exists. When Devens took over as a base, they didn’t decide what would happen should they dissolve Devens as a base. Now no one knows what to do with Devens. Lancaster, Shirley, Harvard and Ayer all had seats at the table if you will in discussing what the resolution would be. Harvard took the lead many years ago and the Harvard committee is what got left out of the current resolution. N. Angus had additional information and a few clarifications that he could share. Mr. Angus clarified that Ayer, Harvard and Shirley are part of the Devens Regional Enterprise zones however Lancaster is not. There is still an active portion of Devens that is an active military base. The jurisdiction that the Devens Enterprise Commission oversees, planning, zoning and the implementation of the reuse plan. The reuse plan was developed by the surrounding towns with input. The working group that Mr. Tillotson was referring to was a working group that was established by the surrounding towns to determine what the disposition of Devens would be in 2033. The legislation that governs the redevelopment at Devens is Chapter 498 of the Acts of 1993. In that Act, it states that by 2033, the surrounding towns and the Devens Enterprise Commission and Mass Development have to figure out what Devens is going to become. Will it become its own town? Will it revert back to the underlying communities? Or is it going to become some combination or something else that nobody has thought of? This is why each of the surrounding towns have created standing committees to explore what the options could be and what is in the best interest of each of their towns. The latest economic development bill has two sections in it. One was to eliminate the housing cap on Devens which would allow for additional residential development to go beyond the 282 housing units that are already allowed. The other was to create a working group to explore rezoning a portion to allow for residential housing. The second part was to create a working group to explore 4 additional options for housing in the Innovation Technology Center District, which is a central portion of Devens that is currently zoned for commercial use and doesn’t allow residential use. This is all to do with affordable housing issues. The state’s looking at all their surplus lands and available lands and looking at opportunities for getting more opportunities for affordable housing in the state. This working group was going to be compromised of members from a town representative of Ayer, Harvard, Shirley along with Mass Development and the Devens Committee, which is a group of Devens residents. There are around 500 residents that live on Devens, and they formed what’s called the Devens Committee. When they were exploring the economic development bill, the House bill included all the groups and the Devens Committee. The Senate bill included all those groups and the Devens Enterprise Commission instead of the Devens Committee. N. Angus had spoken with Senator Eldridge, Senator Cronin and Representative Sena and nobody knows why the mistake was made. It’s possible a staff member or somebody listed Devens Enterprise Commission instead of Devens Committee. Regardless both entities should be involved as they both have a stake in what’s going on. DEC has institutional knowledge of the redevelopment of Devens so it could provide great insight into this working group. The Devens Committee has a vested interest as they are all residents of the Devens Regional Enterprise Zone. Senator Eldridge wrote a letter stating that both the Devens Enterprise Commission and the Devens Committee should be members of this working group. Additionally, he signed on to a joint letter from Senator Cronin and Representative Sena that says they agree. The economic bill didn’t pass so this is a moot point right now, but something could still happen. If and when the economic development bill comes up for discussion in the future, the intent will be to keep both the Devens committee and the Devens Enterprise Commission in that language. B. Yocum added that it was her understanding that previously the only way to increase the housing cap would have been through a super vote that would have included Shirley, Ayer and Harvard. We have had several projects come before us to develop the large buildings that included housing where we’ve had two or three votes, and they failed every time. I think there is an attempt to increase affordable housing, that it has been taken out of the hands of the towns which as a resident of Shirley, I am not happy about. N. Angus stated there is a number needed in order to change any zoning in Devens to allow for additional residential, over and above the cap, or to change a commercial zone to a residential zone. The legislation under Chapter 498 requires a super town meeting, which means Ayer, Harvard and Shirley all have to hold a town meeting the same night and vote on the specific issue the same evening. This has been done in the past. N. Angus commented that one of the reasons he is attending the meetings is to clarify any misconceptions and offered his assistance if anyone had questions. Additionally, he will forward the letter from Senator Eldridge for all to see. 5.4 Impact of Nashoba Valley Medical Center Closing – Information Only According to multiple sources, the Nashoba Valley Medical Center (NVMC) has been threatened with closure by August 31, 2024. On July 31, 2024, Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella submitted a request for the MRPC to conduct an “… a detailed analysis of the impact due to the closing of the hospital and its impact on the member communities of MRPC.” A team of at least three MRPC employees is working on completing the study, at least in draft form, by Thursday, August 15th. A public hearing on this matter will be held at 6:00 p.m. on August 15th, by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), at the Devens Commerce Center. Please the public hearing notice below. Draft and final reports will be provided to all parties via MRPC’s website at a date to be determined (at the end of August or in early September 2024). 5 MRPC has already spoken to someone at the hospital who said 490 employees will be out of work if the hospital is closed. Other issues include 17 communities will lose access to this hospital, life flight and ambulances will have to travel further with patients in need of medical services. To quote one of the people we spoke to, “If the hospital closes, people will die because of the added time of travel”. B. Yocum asked about the $30 million that is being put towards keeping the affected centers open. P. Cunningham said the $30 million was Medicaid payments that were due to Steward and they were essentially going to advance the money to help them continue operations but that was for the hospitals that were not scheduled for foreclosure. Carney and Nashoba hospitals are pretty much written off and would not receive any funds. Townsend, Ayer and Groton have all prepared or declared public health emergencies hoping to get the administration to do more. We are a little disappointed in Governor Healy not being a little more aggressive as part of the bankruptcy proceedings. I heard Senator Warren, who was a law professor at Harvard that specialized in bankruptcies, was kind of surprised that the court had not appointed a trustee to take over and act on behalf of Steward since they had essentially failed at operating these facilities. R. Bialecki asked Glenn if MRPC could possibly look at some alternative options as part of our report. For example, when they closed a critical medical center in the Berkshires, the kept the emergency department open to allow for some time for that hospital to be absorbed by another local system. This way they could meet the critical need for the moment. Another option might be to use the location as an urgent care or a wait station for ambulances to cut down on travel time to get to a patient in need. G. Tillotson gave an example of how Nashoba Valley Medical Center was there for him in a time of crisis recently. The total time spent in the hospital was 27 minutes compared to the current wait times of the alternate hospitals which are at capacity. He also pointed out that although only 11 of the 40 plus beds were being used when asked, the hospital is an excellent source for urgent care. Bottom line is 16 communities are going to lose an urgent care. Closing this hospital could add an additional 20 minutes to a ride and for someone with a heart attack, that 20 minutes could kill them. P. Cunningham added that the bankruptcy court being in Texas adds to the issue. They are removed from what is happening here and the impacts of all of this are not being conveyed adequately in the court down there. N. Angus noted that over 10,000 people work in Devens. 120 businesses, 500 residents and the significant impact of the closure will not only be on the surrounding towns and all the residents, but these businesses utilize the services of the region as well. We act as the local board of health for Devens, so we work with the Nashoba Associated Boards of Health. They are going to be significantly impacted by this. 6  NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS CONCERNING Nashoba Valley Medical Center 200 Groton Road, Ayer, MA 01432 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the “Department”) has received notification of Steward Health Care System’s intent to close Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, MA. The Department will conduct public hearings pursuant to 105 CMR 130.122(D) in-person and virtually by conference call in order to promote public access. These hearings will not be adjudicatory in nature, but rather public forums for the presentation of any comments which may be relevant to the Department’s consideration of the proposed change. The in-person hearing is scheduled for: Date: Thursday, August 15th , 2024 Time: 6:00pm Location: Devens Common Center, 31 Andrews Parkway, Devens, MA 01434 The virtual hearing is scheduled for Monday, August 19th, 2024, 6:00 PM. Members of the public and other interested parties may join the hearing by phone using the following information: Date: Monday, August 19th , 2024 Time: 6:00pm Phone Number: 800-593-9954 Passcode: 3281952 7 5.5 Out of State Travel to GMS Conference – Action Requested REPORT Grants Management System (or GMS) the financial accounting online software company that MRPC uses for all financial tasks regularly offers training in the use of its software. GMS is holding its regular “Fall Regional Training Event … Providing an intensive two-day training session on the GMS Accounting and Financial Management Reporting System.” (Source, https://www.gmsactg.com/gms-fall-regional-training-2024/.) The Executive Director and former fiscal staff attended a GMS conference some time ago. The trainers are excellent, and the content provided is always relevant to everyday financial operations. MRPC has always been an advocate of consistently training its employees for the good of the organization and the region. MRPC’s management recommends that Chris McNamara be sent to Charlotte, NC so that he may attend this training. Topics include but are not limited to the following: A complete overview of the GMS accounting and financial management software, efficient processing of accounts payable, payroll functions and optimization techniques, monthly processing and cost allocation. The cost of registration for the conference is $699. Costs for travel (by air), lodging, and meals have been estimated at $450, $900, and $244. The total estimated cost is $2,293. It is highly likely that the total actual cost will be under $2,000. RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED that the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission authorizes the out-of-state travel of Mr. McNamara to attend the GMS conference for a cost not to exceed $2,293. P. Cunningham moved to accept the resolution as presented. The motion was seconded. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes G. Tillotson - yes B. Yocum – yes K. Munroe – yes D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – yes P. Duffy - yes A. Reid – yes 5.6 Other Administrative Matters 5.6.1 Linda Quinlivan, Fiscal Director has served the MRPC for nearly six years; she started as Fiscal 8  Manager on September 17, 2018, and was promoted to Fiscal Director on July 1, 2021. Linda has informed management that she is planning on retiring on October 31, 2024. Holly Ford, Administrative and Human Resources Director and I have spoken to Linda and Chris McNamara about preparing for the transition. Further reports will be provided to our commissioners each month until Linda’s successor is identified and a request for the hiring of that party will be placed in front of the Commissioners. 5.6.2 MRPC was awarded a two-year, $458,400 grant entitled, Looking Upstream, Learning Downstream: A Geo-Spatial Chronicle and Lessons Learned from the Leominster Flood Emergency of 9/11/2023. Please see document in handout folder. This is a project that has been going on over the last two years. About a third of the funds will come this fiscal year, the other two thirds will come the next fiscal year. K. Chapman mentioned that Glenn, Jeff Legros and Tracy Murphy attended the award announcement in Leominster at the City Hall. It was a team effort in the application. Some interns gathered data, Jeff wrote the narrative and Karen did the budget. Kayla participated in the estimation of mapping costs as well as other things. We will be studying the flood, getting as much public information from residents, working with hydrologists and climate scientists and making lots of maps that will be web-based. 6. Department Updates Status of all ongoing projects can be found by clicking on the link, below: https://mrmapper.mrpc.org/webapps/v2.27/CurrentProjects/ 6.1 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) No new information at this time. 6.2 Planning & Development - Planning Assistance Grant applications matching funds 6.2.1 Milltown Caucus – Action Requested REPORT: MRPC is collaborating with the Central Mass Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC) on a Milltown Caucus to assist our communities with resources, discussion, funding opportunities, and redevelopment of mill buildings. To further this project, MRPC applied for an Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) FY25 Planning Assistance Grant (PAG) with the support of CMRPC for a $39,000 grant of which $9,000 is the total match for the application. Three thousand of the matching funds will come from program year 17 District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA) funding and $6,000 will come from the program year 18 DLTA funding. The application requires a 25% match. RESOLUTION: BE IT RESOLVED that the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission (MRPC) approves of the Planning & Development Director’s request and recommends that $3,000 of the Program Year 17 District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA) award and $9,000 of the Program Year 18 DLTA award be allotted as matching funds to the Milltown Caucus FY25 Planning Assistance Grant application. 9 G. Tillotson moved to accept the resolution as presented. The motion was seconded. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes G. Tillotson - yes B. Yocum – yes K. Munroe – yes D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – yes P. Duffy - yes A. Reid – yes 6.2.2 Ashby MBTA – Action Requested REPORT: MRPC staff have been assisting the Town of Ashby with MBTA Communities Compliance under a Mass Housing Partnership technical assistance grant which ended March 31, 2024. MRPC applied for an Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) FY25 Planning Assistance Grant (PAG) with the support of the town for a total project cost of $31,250 which includes matching funds in the amount of $6,250 and an EEA PAG request of $25,000. One-thousand two-hundred fifty dollars of the match will come from program year 17 District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA) funding and $5,000 will come from the program year 18 DLTA funding. This grant, if awarded, will take Ashby to their compliance date of December 31, 2025. The application requires a 25% match. RESOLUTION: BE IT RESOLVED that the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission (MRPC) approves of the Planning & Development Director’s request and recommends that $1,250 of the Program Year 17 District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA) award and $5,000 of the Program Year 18 DLTA award be allotted as matching funds to MRPC’s FY25 Planning Assistance Grant application for the Town of Ashby. B. Yocum moved to accept the resolution as presented. The motion was seconded. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes G. Tillotson - yes B. Yocum – yes K. Munroe – yes 10 D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – yes A. Reid – yes 6.2.3 Townsend Zoning Bylaw Amendments – Action Requested REPORT: MRPC staff have been assisting the Town of Townsend with MBTA Communities Compliance under various funding sources. During this process, it was discovered that the town’s zoning bylaw section for site plan review is intertwined with their special permit process; meaning that the site plan review process is not separate from the special permit process and therefore is not the by-right process it needs to be. MRPC applied for an Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) FY25 Planning Assistance Grant (PAG) with the support of the town for a total project cost of $31,250 which includes matching funds in the amount of $6,250 and an EEA PAG request of $25,000. One-thousand two-hundred fifty dollars of the match will come from program year 17 District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA) funding and $5,000 will come from the program year 18 DLTA funding. This grant, if awarded, will allow MRPC staff to strategically and methodically separate these two processes to allow applicants a simpler site plan review process and allow the MBTA Communities Overlay District and Bylaw to be compliant with the by-right requirements of the multifamily housing permitting process. The application requires a 25% match. RESOLUTION: BE IT RESOLVED that the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission (MRPC) approves of the Planning & Development Director’s request and recommends that $1,250 of the Program Year 17 District Local Technical Assistance (DLTA) award and $5,000 of the Program Year 18 DLTA award be allotted as matching funds to MRPC’s FY25 Planning Assistance Grant application for the Town of Townsend. P. Cunningham moved to accept the resolution as presented. The motion was seconded. Roll Call Followed: R. Swartz – yes K. Nartowicz – yes A. Pease – yes G. Tillotson - yes K. Munroe – yes D. Valliere – yes L. Shifrin - yes P. Cunningham – yes R. Bialecki – yes A. Reid – yes K. Chapman shared that since the last meeting, MRPC has hired two additional Planners, Zachary Kay and Bernard “Bernie” Cahill. Zach is working on Economic Development, Brownfields, and Green Communities. 11  Bernie will be our new grant administrator. 6.3 Transit & Transportation B. Doherty advised that there will not be an MJTC meeting and there will not be an MPO meeting in the month of August. The next MJTC and MPO meeting will be in September. MJTC will meet on September 11, 2024 and MPO will meet on September 18, 2024. 7. New Business Open session - This time is reserved for topics that the chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed. 8. Adjournment - The date of the next MRPC meeting – September 5, 2024, 7:00 p.m. Chair, L. Shifrin adjourned the meeting at 8:13 pm. R. Swartz moved to adjourn the meeting, the motion was seconded. This meeting will be recorded by the GoToMeeting app and will be made available for viewing at https://www.youtube.com/user/MontachusettRegion/videos. This notice is subject to change with reasonable notice provided to all. Meeting Attendance Name M/A Representing Appointment Date Present Absent Arpano, Abby A Ashburnham 12.2023 X Vacant M Ashburnham X Leab, Doug A Ashby 7.2023 X Pease, Alan M Ashby 7.2001 X Bialecki, Rebecca A Athol 7.2020. X Norton, Kathy M Athol 11.2023 X Copeland, Shaun A Ayer 7.2020. X Tillotson, Geoff M Ayer 7.2022 X Vacant A Clinton X Duffy, Phil M Clinton 12.2011 X Angus, Neil N/V DREZ 7.2023 X Bohart, Mary Jo A Fitchburg 7.2021 X 12  Butland, Alyne M Fitchburg 7.2020. X Labonte, Amber A Gardner 1.2024 X Swartz, Robert M Gardner 7.2019 X Burke, Russell A Groton 7.2022 X Cunningham, Peter M Groton 7.2016 X Minar, Kara A Harvard 7.2021 X Vacant M Harvard X Kresge, Mark A Hubbardston 7.2023 X Munroe, Kristofer M Hubbardston 7.2023 X Dolan, Kelly A Lancaster 7.2023 X Streeter, Frank M Lancaster 7.2023 X Vacant A Leominster X Valliere, Dean M Leominster 7.2019 X Vacant A Lunenburg X Reid, Amanda M Lunenburg 7.2022 X Poodry, Deb A Petersham 7.2024 X Vacant M Petersham X Jackson, Melanie A Phillipston 7.2022 X Telepciak, John M Phillipston 7.2001 X Barclay, James A Royalston 7.2017 X Nartowicz, Kyle M Royalston 7.2022 X Oelfke, Bill A Shirley 7.2020. X Yocum, Barbara M Shirley 8.2017 X Newman, Kirsten A Sterling 7.2023 X 13  Page, Patty M Sterling 7.2019 X Toth, Timothy A Templeton 7.2023 X Rich, Dennis M Templeton 7.2017 X Sexton-Diranian, Chaz A Townsend 7.2022 X Shifrin, Laura M Townsend 7.2019 X Vacant A Westminster X Ferris, Michael M Westminster 7.2025 X Beauvais, Andrew A Winchendon 7.2025 X Corbosiero, Guy M Winchendon 7.2011 X Guests: Staff: G. Eaton, H. Ford, K. Chapman, L. Quinlivan, B. Doherty, K. Kress, G. Belmont DOCUMENTS/EXHIBITS DISTRIBUTED FOR THE MEETING June 6, 2024 MRPC Meeting Minutes August 8, 2024 MRPC Meeting Agenda August 8, 2024 MRPC Revised Meeting Agenda August 8, 2024 MRPC Meeting Agenda with Details Looking Upstream, Learning Downstream Document MRPC Grant Opportunities Spreadsheet 14