Select Board Meeting Minutes Thursday June 12th 2025

Select Board Meeting Minutes
Thursday June 12th, 2025

-Opened the meeting and established a quorum. S. Ford and B. Duffy present. Also, present; D. Ford and L. Dow. From the public: H. Torrey, Mrs. Baroody and online R. Colburn

Approve minutes from June 5th- Motion and 2nd to accept as written. Approved 2-0.

Duane Deferred to matters of the public present.

CEO Report
Duane had his meeting with a member of Friends of Walker Pond. Took him around to find that D. Browns property on Cooper Farm had a commercial looking concrete pad put in but no paperwork submitted to the town. A couple other properties showed some updates and one with completed new construction. He continues to monitor the work being done at the Glamp Ground- two/three structures have been started. David noted that at the Planning Board meeting Tuesday they approved the design for the sign by the road. He will also continue to watch the plumbing situation there. Duane has been around Doe Circle and will continue to monitor the Barrett property. Barry noted that not just one complaint was received, but rather multiple complaints. Calvin Bray inquired about units/septic for additional units on his property, Duane will need to watch for subdividing. Family of Joyce Anderson asking about multiple lots and rules, he let them know that so long as a single lot hasn’t been conveyed in the last five years that they could develop.

Fire Chief/Planning Board-
David noted that they had hose testing done and lost about 7 lengths of hose. He has prices from a couple of places and looking to see where the money should be taken from. Things have been semi quiet, not many calls. He also noted for the Planning Board/Comp plan- that Jerry had received word from the review committee of a job well done on the first draft with a few revisions.

Discussion and/or Action Items-
1. TNT Auto Salvage *added item- Hayden presented his yearly auto salvage permit that is due by July 10th. Duane noted that there hasn’t been any complaints and Hayden has done a great job keep the place cleaned up. The fence and the trees do a fair job enclosing the yard. Motion and 2nd to renew the license. 2-0 approved.
2. Pertville Rd Easement- Mrs. Baroody attended the meeting after viewing the agenda to see what the context was. Ther has been an issue at the end of the road with atvs driving quite fast and all hours of the night. There is a fence there and she was hoping that the town wasn’t going to remove it. We let her know that the issue at hand was from a taxpayer with a complaint regarding a blocked easement further down the road. The woman called the office to complain about the abutting property blocking off the easement so that she couldn’t move stuff off the property. She wanted to attend the meeting to see what, if anything more could be done to prevent this. Lyndsey spoke with her and recommended calling Hancock County Sherrif as it really wasn’t a town issue, but that she could definitely come to a meeting and ask for more advice. She did not attend the meeting. Duane would make time to go up to Pertville to review the situation.
3. Overdue Prop Taxes- Barry Damon called two weeks ago about attending this week’s meeting to discuss his overdue taxes. Have not heard from him since. Also noted that the po box that we have on file for Johhny Gordon is not working, and mail getting returned back to us. Everyone else seems to be on track with their payment arrangements
4. Warrant Schedule- The board discussed with Amy the schedule to payables going forward. They agreed together that we would notify folks of the biweekly schedule, and should something come up we have a backup plan, but that we would strongly suggest everyone prepare for a biweekly warrant going forward. Close of the fiscal year is June 30th and Amy has asked that she and the staff be given the afternoon to work on end of year projects. The office will close at 12pm on Monday June 30th.
5. Sedgwick Brooksville joint Walker Pond meeting- tarring and paving to repair road to the pond- The town’s met and went over some work needing to be done to the road to the pond. There is a culvert needing to be replaced as well as some of the road needs to be repaved. Both Sedgwick and Brooksville will work together to pay for these repairs.
6. Cleanup of downed trees on Walker Pond Rd- Ben Astbury has been doing the work at the request of Paul Carter, things are going well, and we have received invoices for the work being done.

Old Business-
1. Deputy Clerk Duties- The board asked Lyndsey to report on training progress with the new hire and noted that she was catching on quickly with mv renewal registrations. They asked Lyndsey to draft up a policy for Sabrina to sign for expectations going forward and have her and the board sign.
2. Signs- The 911 signs and no parking signs have been given to the road commissioner. Barry has discussed with him fees for put those signs up. We have been receiving many calls/emails regarding Snowberry Lane and Barry has expressed to Paul that this needed to be done asap. Hoping by the end of this week it will be done.
3. Christy Hill Rd- Dr. Desilvey came into the office and asked that Lyndsey report to the board that the other hearing-impaired sign was turned sideways and need to be fixed, as well as a road sign needed to be replaced, it has fallen down.

Adjourn-
Motion and 2nd to adjourn. 2-0 at 6:51pm

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Lyndsey Dow