Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes Thursday December 12th, 2024

Town of Sedgwick

Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes

Thursday December 12, 2024

 

  • Opened the meeting and established a quorum. S. Ford, C. Pert and B. Duffy present. Also, in attendance; D. Ford, L. Dow, J. Wetterskog, R. Colburn, S. Webb and E. Webb
  • Reviewed and signed Treasurer’s warrant
  • Read and approve minutes from 12/5- Motion and 2nd to accept as written. 3-0 approved.

 

CEO Deferred to tax discussion re: R. Colburn 

  1. Colburn provided a written agreement to the Select Board to begin paying up on back taxes. Lyndsey will draft up said agreement and mail Robin a copy for her to sign and send back. Payments will be made monthly. Motion and 2nd to accept agreement. 3-0 approved.

 

CEO REPORT

Duane has been communicating with Webb Excavating about possible plans for a building expansion at their Reach Road site. Duane inspected the old Grace McNeil cottage since architect seems to want to expand the porches toward the water. He had a phone convo about shoreland zoning as it applied to any expansion of said cottage. Duane visited the Hirsch property at Alder Way to view hazardous tree into the shore bank that the current shorefront contractor wishes to take out. Recommended that the stump and extensive root system be left in place. Duane checked in with contractor; Robert Cowart on the status of paved roadway removal/remediation at the Townsend wetlands/shore at 57 Ocean Side Dr. He said that HAT line survey has been done, DEP has approved the walkway in the wetland and that eco Co of Bar harbor is working on further remediation to the site, he was advised by Duane that there was continuing concern about removal of pave roadway areas into the wetlands and shore. Received a call from Harold Barr who has a vacant lot at 539 Sedgwick Ridge Rd.  He has never seen a septic plan from LaBelle on site and his broker suggested he take out a plumbing permit as part of his potential sale action. Since he is not going to build but instead try to sell, Duane suggested that his septic design be good for 2 years and it makes more sense for him to pass it along to a new owner rather than to spend money on extra permit work and fees at this time.

 

FIRE CHIEF REPORT

David will bring the contract for the board to sign next week for 4 Guys- no payment for that until delivery date. The FD has had a busy week, with mutual aid both Friday and Saturday in Brooklin at the Cole residence. Then spending a good 6 hour cleaning air packs and other equipment. Then the storm damage, lots of trees and wires down causing many roads to be impassable. 

DISCUSSION and/or ACTION ITEMS:

  1. Overdue Taxes: B. Rankin, R. Colburn and S. Ginn- R. Colburn agreement arranged at beginning of the meeting. A money order was received from Brian Rankin after last week’s vote. He is still a month behind with no correspondence. Board agrees that a final letter be sent stating that $400 due by January 15th, 2025, for the original agreement to continue. Letters will also have a portion to sign and return to make the agreement more formal. Ginn is three years behind and a letter will be sent as well to discuss a payment arrangement. Hoping to catch some of these before they get too far behind.
  2. Go over list of possible committee member to divide & contact- The Select Board members discussed the names previously obtained from Leslie of the budget committee. They crossed off names of those they thought wouldn’t be interested and split the list amongst them to contact. Will come back with a final list for the budget committee.
  3. Allen Kratz letter- The board has decided to opt out of the Pilot but did sign the letter of support for the Community Resilience Partnership.

 

ASSISTANT REPORT:

Lyndsey has finally been in touch with Tyler technologies aka Payport and signed a contract to get the remaining online payments up and running. This will allow folks to pay their property taxes online as well as renew boat registrations. Only awaiting the next steps to get those links live and will do so when available.

 

ADJOURN:

Motioned and 2nd to adjourn. Approved 3-0 @6:39PM.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Lyndsey Dow

Approved 3-0