Condensed from approved minutes

Board of Selectmen Public Meeting Minutes, November 3, 2014

Committee Members Present:   Chairman Coolidge, Selectwoman Viandier, Selectmen Danforth, John Thompson, John Kinney, Town Administrator Roy, Susan Chase

Meeting Opened at 6:00 by Chairman Coolidge

The minutes of the October 24, 2014 meeting were approved and accepted.

Road Agent Report

John Thompson said he is getting ready for winter. He needs to coordinate with the fire department to do the bridge cleaning. Today he screened 900 yards of sand. Pipe is being stored at the Transfer Station for the drainage project on Maple Street.

Selectmen Danforth asked if John received a quote from any companies for sand. John Thompson said we could get a quote from RD Edmunds and that could be used to show a good price comparison. This should give an accurate number to show the Town savings on doing the sand screening in house.

John Thompson presented his budget. He said he looked back over the past three years to see if the town stayed within the presented budget and that didn’t happen. He took that information into consideration while figuring out the numbers for the next year budget. He provided his budget with two options to be considered. John and the Board of Selectmen will be reviewing the options before presenting to the Budget Committee.

EMS

John Kinney presented his budget with only one increase change from last year. The Communication line is increased by $350.00 in order to purchase a new application to be downloaded onto personnel’s smart phones. The application is called “I Am Responding.”  This will link everyone together and tell each other who is responding to a call at anytime. EMS total budget request is $30,005.00 for next year.

Library

Susan Chase presented her budget with one increase of $2,100.00 to the wage line to accommodate a two and half hour increase per week on Thursday afternoon. This will provide time for children to access the Library after school.  The children will be able to ride the bus to the library and then  be picked up by their parents. Library total budget request is $40,900.00 for next year.

Town Administrator

Marj Roy said we received the County tax bill of $714,545.  This is $38,262. less than than the 2013 bill. This must be paid by December 17, 2014.

Other Business

Commerford, Nieder, Perkins LLC – Cindy Perkins and Phil Bodwell attended the meeting so the Selectmen could ask questions about their assessing bid. They spoke about their company’s policies and procedures.

Selectwoman Viandier mentioned that the Solarize Energy Meeting information is listed on the Beacon’s Web site.

Meeting adjourned 7:30 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Elita Reed

Recording Secretary