Select Board Meeting Minutes Thursday August 21st, 2025

Select Board Meeting Minutes

Thursday August 21st, 2025

 

-Opened the meeting and established a quorum. S. Ford and B. Duffy and Dan Carter present. Also in attendance: D. Ford and D. Astbury. Online: L. Dow, L. Deans and A. Kratz

 

Approval of minutes from last meeting: Motion and 2nd to accept at written. 3-0 approved.

 

Read and signed the treasurer’s warrant.

 

CEO Report:

Duane has been working with Lyndsey to create to more organized system for permits etc. He put together a list of completed permits that had been signed off on to be sent to the state. Keeping an eye on the new commercial shop on Cooper Farm Road; Darrel Brown. Duane provided Mr. Scott with newly updated permitting forms for the septic installation at the Campground. It appears to be open for business, but quiet. Duane visited Kilcare on Walker Pond-new construction in May- but everything seems to have stopped. Duane anticipated coordinating with the assessor’s agent regarding ongoing projects and a list of properties needing to be reevaluated. He did not get to speak to them this year.  Completed inspection for Adrian Smith.

 

Discussion and/or Action Items:

  1. Salt and Sand Order- Paul is doing sand. Susan will be reaching out to Eastern Salt to complete the order.
  2. Special Town Meeting Prep- Warrant has been posted and Ben Astbury has been asked to act at moderator. Meeting will commence at 5pm just before the normal Select board meeting on Thursday, August 28th.
  3. Review Alt Phone Lines- Received a quote from Compusult from Ring Central to upgrade the telephones to VOIP phones. There will be a cost savings to the town from switching service providers. Motion and 2nd to accept quote and schedule upgrade. There was discussion about installation- if Consolidated were to do an upgrade they would have to put in all new lines at a huge cost to the town. No additional wires run. The IT company ran the wiring while they were here doing other it upgrades last week. 3-0 approved.
  4. Workshop on Road Commissioner’s Duties – Barry stated that he had been doing research on Road Commissioner duties. At present the town doesn’t have anything in place and the with Paul’s term about to expire it is unclear whether he will wish to continue as Road Commissioner. This will be a baseline for anyone new that may come into the position. He went over various aspects of the Road Commissioners job, and the Board will continue working on the draft.

 

 

Unresolved Business:

  1. Barry still needs to touch base with a realtor regarding the Rankin property.
  2. Flags-Dan worked with Mr. Boardman to begin the process to buy and hang flags in the Sedgwick Village. He received an application from the Cole’s Transportation Museum to obtain funding. Mr. Boardman can pick up flags and has storage space for them. The next steps will be to fill out the application for funds as well as to submit a permit to Versant for use of the poles.
  3. Alan Kratz- The climate res. has chosen from a group of candidates, a young woman to act as coordinator for this project. He will email the contract to be signed so that they may begin work. Motion and 2nd to authorize Surry as fiscal agent to execute the contract with Emma Weed. 3-0 approved.
  4. Salt/Sand- Daryl asked about the amount of sand that Paul was going to put up. The board let him know that they would be asking Paul to coordinate with Daryl to get this done.

 

Adjourn:

Motion and 2nd to adjourn. 3-0 approved at 6:35pm

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Lyndsey Dow