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FY26 budget planning, salt and sand shed removal bids, Public Works staffing on Sept. 16 agenda

10 months ago
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With Labor Day preempting their usual meeting day, the Select Board has a lengthy agenda for their September 16 meeting. Items include discussing parameters and schedules for the upcoming budget cycle and opening bids to demolish the Upper Village salt and sand shed.

Staffing is also on the agenda. The board will discuss a Public Works staffing shortage as winter plowing looms and, to support NGTV, a possible new Media Production Coordinator position to be shared with Gray and MSAD 15.

The board is expected to review a draft RFP for design of the Fairgrounds bathroom and storage building, and in a related topic, roadside parking by the Fairgrounds.

Also on the agenda: a request from the Economic and Community Development Committee to pursue a no-match grant with Fire Rescue for reflective house numbers for homes that lack them, a new liquor license request for Café 1055 in the Upper Village, a liquor license renewal for the Eagles on Sabbathday Road, and bingo for Amvets.

The meeting will convene at 7 p.m. at the Meetinghouse and will be live-streamed at this link. Find the full agenda at this link.

Some agenda items of interest are noted below:

  • Current year’s budget parameters (p.4), FY26 budget topics and meeting schedules (pp.89-91)
  • Draft RFP to design the bathroom and storage addition to the Fairgrounds pavilion (pp.61-70)
  • Parking along Bald Hill Road near the Fairgrounds (p.60)
  • Economic and Community Development Committee’s request to apply for a no-match Community Connections mini-grant: up to $10,000 for reflective house numbers with Fire Rescue (pp.71-79)
  • Bids will be opened for demolition of the salt and sand structure in the Upper Village; find the bid documents here: pp.47-58; and
  • Liquor license applications for the New Gloucester Village Deli (“Café 1055”) (pp.16-28)  and for the Eagles (pp.33-41).

Find the full September 16, 2024, agenda and related documents at this link.  

Public comments may be submitted by email before 10 a.m. on Monday, September 16, to townmanager@newgloucester.com and smyers@newgloucester.com. If you want your written comment read aloud, please indicate that in the subject line.

Find contact information for Select Board members and links to meeting agendas, minutes and related documents at this link.

— Joanne Cole

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