By Carol Britton Meyer

Looking toward the busy summer season, the Hull Redevelopment Authority last week approved two events on its property following lengthy discussions to iron out all the details.

The family-friendly South Shore Revival event, which will celebrate sobriety and recovery from addiction, is scheduled for June 2-8, featuring participation by a number of South Shore churches, The Anchor of Hull recovery and wellness center, a Cohasset recovery group, as well as speakers, live music, and more.

“This will be a celebration of the victory over addiction,” said event organizer Patrick Lenhart, who lives in Hingham and has family in Hull.

Mass Bears and Cubs is a non-profit organization that promotes an inclusive LGBT+ community through fundraising and other community events, and builds upon earlier Bears at the Beach Hull activities in order to carry on and eventually expand upon that tradition.

The Bears and Cubs event, planned for August 2, will be an opportunity to spend a day at the beach in a safe environment while enjoying time spent with others, president Marko Zaric said. The goal is also to support local restaurants by ordering food for delivery and enjoying a meal and drinks after spending time at the beach.

Both free events are contingent on having proper insurance and the required approvals from various town boards.

In other business…

• Chair Dennis Zaia Dennis started off what turned out to be a nearly four-hour meeting with a reminder that the topic of the two-way road plan “will not be discussed at our meetings until we are asked to resume input by request of the town of Hull via the town manager,” who recently submitted a related statement to the authority.

• HRA members continued to review and fine-tune, with HRA technical operations manager Mark Hamin, the draft parking lot lease request for proposals for a maximum of 900 permitted parking spaces, contingent on select board review and approval, to submit to the Central Register (where state, county, and municipal solicitations are posted), working around already approved events.

At its April 7 meeting, the HRA will select the lessee/tenant, with May 1 the start of the parking season. The RFP for vendors will be discussed at the next HRA meeting.

• The board also approved – at Zaia’s request – a process whereby Hamin will not only check his own HRA email regularly, but also the authority’s administrative email account three times a week. He will inform HRA members of any pressing matters to ensure they don’t miss important details related to managing the HRA property, with deliberation at a public HRA meeting in accordance with the Open Meeting Law.

• There was also a lengthy discussion at the end of the meeting about whether the HRA should invite the Wildlands Trust, which recently contacted the authority about a possible connection of some kind between the two, to a meeting.

Members Adrienne Paquin and Dan Kernan favored that approach, while Zaia, who has already met with a Trust representative and noted that “we all want some open space [on the property],” suggested they also talk individually with someone from the Trust and then compare notes with him, and for the board to focus on discussing “Option 3” of the draft Urban Renewal Plan.

On the other hand, Kernan – who has already talked with someone from the Trust – thinks the board should invite them to talk at an HRA meeting sooner rather than later.

“An outfit like the Wildlands Trust demonstrates that there are different paths,” he said, noting that such a conversation could be “a potential door” and would “put a foundation under [past] citizens’ presentations, ideas, and resources” related to the use of the property, including open space preservation.

The next HRA meetings are scheduled for Mondays, February 10 and 24; March 10 and 31; and April 7, 14, and 28.

A replay of the meeting will be available on Hull Community Television’s broadcast channels and on demand at www.hulltv.net.

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