About a dozen action items await the Select Board at their Monday, September 19 meeting, along with updates from town departments.
The meeting convenes in the Meetinghouse at 7 p.m. and will be live-streamed on Town Hall Streams at this link. A brief assessors’ meeting will take place first, then it will be on to the Select Board’s agenda.
Action items include:
— a proposal from A.H. Grover, Inc. about improvements to Pond Road. Last spring, Pond Road residents brought a petition to the Select Board about the impact of Grover’s new rock quarry, gravel pit and trucking operations on their gravel road.
Meanwhile, in exchange for Town permission to run trucks year-round–Pond Road is posted during mud season–Grover had proposed paving at its expense an additional 200’ of Pond Road at the Maine Street end (Route 26) to reach the access road to its new rock quarry. The Select Board asked Public Works Director Ted Shane and then-Manager Christine Landes to investigate and return with a more resident-focused plan. Read background at this link;
— a request from Port Resources, a non-profit based in South Portland, that the Town formally support its request for a Community Development Block Grant to fund repairs and improvements to its group home on Country Charm Lane, off Peacock Hill Road. Stuart Simon, Development Director of Port Resources, will present to the board about the proposed grant (agenda packet at pp. 14-18);
— Review of recommendations and award of a new phone system for Town departments and buildings. Bids were received from vendors last month. Now the board has a comprehensive, detailed bid analysis and recommendations prepared by Sarah Gusky Kemer of the Cable TV Committee (pp. 42-46);
— Discussion of the study assessing the condition of the town’s paved roads by summer intern Hung Nguyen. Public Works Director Ted Shane’s paving/chip seal plan from January 2022 will also be on the table. See Nguyen’s presentation and Shane’s spreadsheet at pp. 70-76 of the agenda packet;
— A fresh RFP for a replacement ambulance for Fire Rescue. If the bid document is approved by the board, bids would be due October 17 (pp. 32-41)
There’s even more. Find the full September 19 meeting agenda and related documents, including Interim Manager Bradley Plante’s and others’ monthly reports, at this link.
To submit a written public comment for this meeting, send an email by 10 a.m. Monday September 19 to both the Town Manager (townmanager@newgloucester.com) and Deputy Clerk (smyers@newgloucester.com). Include your name and address, and if you want your comment read aloud, include “please read.” Staff ask that comments be submitted in Word or PDF format. Find details at the Municipal Officers page here.
— Joanne Cole
