Town of Brooklin
Select Board Meetings

Two Reports are listed — August 11 and August 18, 2009

SELECT BOARD MEETING
APPROVED MINUTES --- August 11, 2009
(Approved 8/25/09)
 

Present: Gray, Grant and Freethey

Minutes were read and approved from the August 4th meeting. (Voted 3-0) to accept as amended.

The updated 2009 Tax Maps from RJD Appraisal Co. were received.

Staff Meeting was held at 1:15 PM which included members of the Community Team Frank Bianco and Lauren Allen. Discussion of job descriptions and other office procedures were talked about. Next meeting in two weeks to be chaired by Lorna.

The board voted 3-0 to appoint Todd Richardson to the Board of Appeals for a one year term.

Wade Dow stopped in to bring the board status updates on his gift of property to the Town in reference to a letter from his lawyer.

The 2009 Real Estate Tax Commitment Book will be available on the Brooklin Web Site in the near future. When time allows, the tax collector will forward the files to Greg Summers to put up on the website.

Meeting Adjourned at 6 PM

Warrant #6: 60,678.75

Receipts: $122,000.84

TOWN OF BROOKLIN
SELECTBOARD MINUTES
MINUTES-AUGUST 18, 2009

(Approved on Aug 25, 2009)

Gray and Freethey Present

Grant was absent due to illness. The Board received a notice from the Hancock County Planning Commission regarding information on HCPC septic grants.

The town has received a check back from Wise Business forms as a refund on the costs of mailing the tax bills. Amount is $ 83.22.

We received a memo regarding information on a DOT Road maintenance handbook. The town was allowed up to three copies free, and in various media formats. The Board decided we would ask for one copy on CD and one hard copy. Freethey sent an e-mail to the Dot POC requesting the copies.

We received the bills from Harris for the TRIO software and training. We decided to table payment until next week when the whole board could discuss the TRIO costs. While we can pay the additional unanticipated costs, we may need to have additional monies voted on by the town at special town meeting (see below).

Select board received a Hancock County Commissioners Caucus Warrant regarding a meeting for the purpose of electing a municipal officer as a member of the county budget committee. The meeting will be held 8.25 at the Sedgwick Town Hall at 6:00 PM.

The Board discussed the need for a special town meeting to be held in the next couple of months . Agenda items needed to be acted upon are (1) Zoning Maps (2) Increase in Fire Chief Pay that could not be acted upon in April (3) Harris TRIO costs noted above (4) Training time reimbursement for away from office travel for town officials.

The assessor will be in the town office on the 26th.

Our county tax bill will be due the week of 8.24.2009

Gifts for the Veteran’s Memorial are coming into the town office. Freethey drafted a couple of different thank you letters to be used by the Board and the Veterans committee, depending upon dollar amount of gift. He will ask the committee to come in on 8.25 to discuss mailing “thank yous” and for them to review ideas from contributors.

Road commissioner met with board and was concerned about whether the DOT repatrol was coming by to inspect the roads. Board agreed to inquire to find out if we were getting serviced the same as other towns.

Meeting Adjourned 6 PM
Minutes reported by R. Freethey

Warrant # 7: $47,735.59
Receipts: $169,573.41