Town of Otisfield
Board of Selectmen Meeting Minutes
November 18, 2015
1. CALL TO ORDER: The regular meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM. Chairman; Hal Ferguson, Lenny Adler & Rick Micklon present.
2. FLAG SALUTE: Audience and Board members saluted the flag.
3. ACTION ON MINUTES:
A. Meeting minutes from November 4, 2015. *Motion to accept minutes. LA/RM – Unanimous.
B. Special meeting minutes from November 10th, 2015. *Motion to accept minutes. HF/LA – Unanimous.
4. SPECIAL EVENTS:
A. *Motion to OPEN G.A. HEARING TO ACCEPT NEW APPENDICES A-D 2015-2016 @ 7:03 PM. HF/LA – Unanimous. Comments/questions from the public. None.
*Motion to Close Hearing @ 7:04 PM. LA/RM – Unanimous. *Motion to accept new appendices. Sign G.A. Ordinance Appendices A-D. LA/HF – Unanimous.
5. COMMITTEE REPORTS:
A. None.
6. DEPARTMENT HEADS:
A. None.
7. QUESTIONS/COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC:
A. Social Outreach Committee: Dave McVety gave a $500.00 check to Town on behalf of this committee towards the purchase of a new range hood at Community Hall. BOS thanked him and his committee and will look in to purchasing it soon. LA: A grant of approximately $15,000.00 was given to local towns for upgrades by PNGTS. LA will look into applying for this same grant to get work done at the Community Hall. *Tabled until an upcoming meeting.
8. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT ITEMS:
A. Sign Perrin Easement – Copy with BOS signatures will be sent to Perrins. *Motion that we sign the easement from Marcial Perrin & Nancy Perrin. LA/RM – Unanimous. TT notorized the document.
B. Winterize the Community Hall: Anne has made contact with Harley to get this done following the next drug awareness meeting on December 3.
9. ADJUSTMENTS TO AGENDA
A. None.
10. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. Cobb Hill Road - HF: Off Road Construction is working on it. The appropriate easement was received prior to starting work. The Town has been granted permission to go approximately 20‘on to someone’s private property. HF requesting we send the land owners a thank you note. A bill from Ross Cudlitz has been received and paid.
11. SELECTMEN’S ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED & VOTED ON
A. Town Warrant: *Motion to sign Warrant # 9 to pay the town bills. HF/LA - Unanimous.
B. Possible 2nd meeting to be requested with Sherriff Gallant and/or David McVety: Sherriff has offered to come and give their take on the calls received from Otisfield. Meeting on Thursday. Looking at December 3rd @ 7:00 PM. Rick will finalize the date w/ the Sherriff, he will let the Town know so that we can place it on the bulletin board and the Town Website.
C. Disaster relief: Patty Haggerty, would like to be called the Community Health Coordinator. Board discussed hesitancy with an official title. Not sure it’s necessary. HF will has asked her for some words to put on the website. *Tabled until an upcoming meeting.
12. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD
A. Oxford County Budget Committee: RM: Wished to recap the committee and the process to help the Board and the public to better understand it. Budget Work Session was held Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 6:00 PM. 2016 Oxford County Budget Committee members are all town Selectmen and they are as follows: Fred Henderson of Greenwood, Les Flanders of Lincoln Plantation, Dennis Henderson of West Paris, Russell Newcomb of Norway, Bradford Adley of Rumford, Rick Micklon of Otisfield, Jeffrey Cox of Fryeburg, Jane Rich of Andover, Lee Holman of Hartford. Rick is Committee Chairman. District 3 Towns include Buckfield, Hartford, Hebron, Otisfield, Oxford, Paris, Sumner, West Paris and Woodstock. The only new issue in 2015/16 was Western Maine Transportation. They provide services for Oxford County but not all of the County.
They have not and currently do not service Otisfield. Otisfield’s contribution will be $460.65 for 2016. Some towns that use it the most, refuse to pay for it individually and felt it should be a county wide support rather than a per person served assessment. The WMTS budget is based on matching Federal and State funds and if not supported by local funds they would lose the matching funds and would need to stop services in the county. After all 9 members discussed the ramifications both pro and con. The committee vote was (7) in favor of supporting it and (2) opposed (Norway and Lincoln Plantation) Rick knows there is lack of support from the Otisfield Finance Committee but feels the services are for the betterment of our friends, relatives and neighbors in the other county towns.
B. Pleasant Lake Dam. HF met w/ everyone. They had budgeted 25,000 and have only used about 22,000.00
C. Foreclosure Policy Template: HF: Would like to see this go before the Ordinance Policy Review Committee. All agree.
13. EXECUTIVE SESSION:
A. Motion to enter into executive session pursuant to MSRS. *Motion to close executive session by___ 2nd___, All Y-N. Discussion: *There was no executive session held at this mtg.
14. ADJOURNMENT. *Motion to adjourn at 8:00 PM. HF/LA -Unanimous.
Respectfully submitted,
Tanya Taft, Secretary
Approved by:
Hal Ferguson, Chairman
Rick Micklon
Lenny Adler
Approved on December 2, 2015
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