Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes November 14th, 2024

Town of Sedgwick

Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes

Thursday November 14th, 2024

 

  • Opened the meeting and established a quorum. S. Ford, C. Pert and B. Duffy present. Also in attendance: D. Ford, L. Dow and online; R. Colburn, J. Wetterskog and A Kratz
  • Reviewed and signed Treasurer’s warrant
  • Read and approve minutes from 11/7- Motion and 2nd to accept as written. 3-0 approved.

CEO REPORT:

Duane met with engineer; Andrew McCullough at the fire station and received a check for $260.00 for planning board approved permit and a building notification form for the Wood property repairs at Shore Rd. Duane printed out the HHE 200 form for a new septic at 3 Storage Lane from John Woodward and performed a preliminary inspection at the site. Received a call from one Solar company about a building notification form for a new solar panel job. Revision energy called about a solar array at 50 Fox Run and asked if Sedgwick had any property line setbacks.  Duane discussed with the board the timeline for ordinance changes to be voted on at town meeting. Also mentioned his meeting with Jim Fisher and Deer Isle’s abundant volunteer numbers on their comprehensive plan project.

DISCUSSION and/or ACTION ITEMS:

  1. How to find people for various committees- Susan discussed the vacancies in the various committees and the board discussed way to advertise for these vacancies including posting on the website and maybe in the local papers with the responsibilities and knowledge base expectations.
  2. Budget Workshop- The board went through the first 20 + warrant articles from last year and discussed whether or not they should be increasing any of the budget numbers. Barry would like to see current numbers to date from the Treasurer in order to better gauge what the need will be for next year. The articles pertaining to roads/snowplowing will be reviewed by the road commissioner and the budget committee like years passed. Lynndsey asked if the tax collector salary can be part of the wages for the rest of the staff, now that the position has been transitioned. The board agreed. The wording for the tax collector health insurance was not satisfactory for Maine Municipal Health Trust and this will need to be thought about for the next town meeting. The Select Board will continue to work on the warrant articles once current budget numbers are received from the Treasurer.

UNRESOLVED BUSINESS:

-Barry has an updated list of tax acquired properties, lots of people have come forward and many payments have been made and new payment arrangements set up. He will continue to work on this and will be in contact with a few folks who are at risk or newly on the foreclosure list. The board would like people to know that they are on top of this.

– Barry did not get a chance to speak to Ben Astbury about the speed sign. Still, lots of speeding in town.

– Nomination papers for the following seats will be available beginning November 27th and are all 3-year term: Clerk, 2nd Selectman and School Committee.

PUBLIC COMMENT:

Alan Kratz discussed an upcoming enrollment in the Community Resilience Partnership at no cost to the town, that would later open the town to additional grant funding.

Jerry forwarded the self eval to the Select Board to review. Still in need of volunteers for the community climate resilience committee.

ADJOURN:

Motioned and 2nd to adjourn. Approved 3-0 @7:03pm

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Lyndsey Dow