Students from the Fay School helped assemble five benches for the town's trails, and the committee outlined several volunteer and programming opportunities during its April 24 meeting.
"They they assembled all 5 of them," said Kat McKee, the Trails Committee chair, describing the students' work assembling four standard benches and one bench intended for people with mobility issues. The benches are stored in the committee shed; members said they will use a gorilla cart and volunteer labor to move them to trail locations.
McKee said the Rotary Club of Southborough has coordinated with the school and that the committee plans an Earth Day–period cleanup where volunteers may collect litter at flexible times and leave collected material at the roadside for pickup. The committee also accepted an invitation to a volunteer build day organized by the Appalachian Mountain Club and Bay Circuit Trail volunteers for Sunday, June 8; McKee said she will place a calendar invite and encouraged member participation.
Committee members discussed bringing back trail programming, including guided hikes and a yoga-on-the-trail series. McKee said the instructor's fee was "75 a piece" and the committee could likely afford a limited series, perhaps four sessions, depending on the final budget.
Members also discussed producing a professional trail map for kiosks and a separate effort to add the trails to Google Maps. Will Warren said the town-generated layers that appear in Google Maps are "actually pretty high quality" and could be useful, while the committee also wants a high-resolution map suitable for kiosk printing and PDF distribution on the town website.
The committee asked volunteers to help with sign and kiosk material and said it will follow up on contractor estimates for interpretive-sign costs.