Sanitary District Steering Committee
Minutes for June 16, 2006
Attending:
Bob Cawley, Ann Funderburk, Bill Hodgkins, Jim Robinson, Richard Scott.
Meeting was held at NEH Meeting Room at 2 PM, 6/16/2006.
1. A brief discussion about minutes took place. Anne’s attempt to record the first meeting failed. JR will assemble minutes from his notes and distribute. BOS was receptive to hiring a scribe, if any can be found. JR will check with Mike MacDonald about getting someone.
2. JR opened discussion of “Capital Costs” to try and clarify the SDSC position as it applies to Capital Costs within the Sanitary District. In order to be able to deal with the specific cases of capital costs, an attempt to define capital situations was made and resulted in the following categories of capital expenditures;
a. Existing Bonded Capital Debt: It was the opinion of the majority of the committee that the existing debt would remain in the property tax base and not be passed to the Sanitary District. This is in accordance with Title 38, Chap 11, P 1103.
b. Maintenance related capital costs. This would include, but not be limited to, the capital cost relating to the everyday operations of the Sanitary District, i.e. replacement of existing pumps, and equipment. These costs would have to be paid by the Sanitary District, ref: Title 38, Chap 11, P 1202.4.
c. Capital Expenditures required adding new users to the system, i.e. developments and new dwellings; these costs would be born entirely by the new user, in addition to a “hookup” charge equivalent to a prorated portion of the system capacity.
d. DEP Mandates: Considerable discussion ensued on this point. A consensus was reached that if the mandate is specific and relates to prior poor operation of the existing equipment, it would be the responsibility of the SD to pay the costs. It the mandate is not specific to our system, but is applied to all districts and the cost is substantial; the town would be requested to provide assistance for the capital construction costs.
e. Huge additions to the Sanitary District, i.e. Hall Quarry: No final agreement on this situation was reached during the meeting, after considerable discussion. This issue will have to be referred to the BOS for final determination.
The meeting was adjourned after setting the next meeting for June 28 at 4 PM. Sally has set up the meeting for Mike Bender’s office, downstairs in the NEH building.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Robinson
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