Town of Lisbon
Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes
September 8, 2003
7:00 pm Meeting opened
Present: Selectmen R. Pride, R. Brooks
Clerk: W. Johnson, TA
Chief Tavernier addressed the Board with his monthly department report. Chief noted Stephen Medeiros began working for the department as a full time patrolman today. He will be doing field training with the Chief for his first week and with Sergeant McKinley his second. He will be scheduled to work on his own sometime after his second week. Grants have been awarded to the department from the Dept. of Justice for terrorism protection and DWI patrols. Chief stated he has been discussing with Chief Smith of Lincoln PD the possibility of having them provide police dispatch for Lisbon. An estimate of cost should be forthcoming in a week or two. Several other towns may also participate with Lincoln. Department is working on an application for a safe gun grant that would provide gun locks for parents who have guns in their
homes. Chief Tavernier left the meeting at 7:20 pm
Meghan McCarthy of the Littleton Courier joined the meeting at 7:15 pm
K. Clement in to report on public works activities for the month, to discuss the water improvement project and introduce two candidates for the water/wastewater/DPW position. Board reviewed and discussed with KC a letter for Mike Duffy, engineer with Provan and Lorber regarding the reconstruction of Towle Street and Bergin Terrace. Two methods of reconstruction were presented by Duffy to correct the problem with the base foundation of the road. KC recommends removing several inches of material from the existing roadway and putting road fabric down and building the road back up to grade with the proper bank run and crushed gravel. KC stated funds were not available in the highway budget to do the entire length of Bergin Terrace and it would have to be finished next year. Paving the section from the brook on Towle
Street up to George Stevens house must be done before winter as well as the hill on Barrett Street by Roydon Hudson. KC proposes to have his crew remove the remaining blacktop on Towle Street and Bergin Terrace and do the fabric and gravel work up to Stevens in the next week or two. According to Mike Duffy, if the water line project patch paving were not done as contracted, the project cost would be reduced by approximately $23,000. Some of the $23,000 could be used to off set the additional gravel cost and paving the hills. Deleting this part of the job does have the approval of Sue Farber at Rural Development. Final cost numbers will be prepared by KC and reported to WJ this week and to the Board next Monday. Discussed the repair to Mrs. White’s waste line on Highland Av to West Street. Schofield is working there today and should have the repair completed by tomorrow. Discussed repair to sidewalk and railing in front of Parker Block. KC is trying to schedule with Tom Clark
to get it done in September. Morrill Construction has requested permission to work on Saturdays installing new services and doing restoration work as
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part of the water project. KC and WJ recommend letting them work Saturdays from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm as the good weather is quickly slipping away. The project is currently one to two weeks behind schedule.
Selectmen J. Hite joined the meeting at 8:10 pm
JH moved and RB 2nd to move to non-public session per RSA 91-A:3 II (b) to interview and discuss hiring a new employee for the Town water/wastewater/DPW departments. 8:15 pm
RESUMED PUBLIC SESSION AT 9:05 PM
KC requested the Board consider hiring an on call part time person for the highway department for this coming winter. With no experienced plow drivers for the rural routes this winter a backup person is needed to meet the needs of the public. KC proposes using this person to plow snow with a Town truck only and when his assigned truck is not plowing he will not be used. This will free KC up to assist Lester and Todd or the new person with the work in the village. KC is recommending Todd Rollins for this position and he is willing to work on an on call basis this winter. RB knows of Todd and confirms his ability to do a good job for the Town. After discussion, RB moved and JH 2nd to hire Todd Rollins as a part time on call snow plow driver at a rate of $12/hr with no benefits for the 03/04 winter season. So
voted all.
KC left the meeting at 9:20 pm
WJ stated all details of the update report on the water project have been discussed.
WJ presented a request to use a portion of the remaining funds in the housing improvement account to participate in the So Main Street Housing Renewal. AHEAD is offering low interest loans and grants to homeowners to do improvements and this money would also be offered. Five grants in the amount of $1,000 each are requested. This is the same program discussed several months ago with the Board for renewal assistance in this area. Approximately $8,000 exists in the housing account at this time. $1,000 has already been committed to AHEAD for the Neighborhood Works program. JH moved and RB 2nd to approve the request for the grants. So voted all.
WJ requested a non-public session to discuss a confidential request. JH moved and RB 2nd to move to Non-public session per RSA 91 –A:3 II ©. So voted all.
RESUMED PUBLIC SESSION
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The Board discussed who would be the Boards ex-officio member of the Planning Board as both Rob Brooks and J. Hite are currently on the Board. JH moved and RP 2nd to appoint R. Brooks as the planning board’s ex-officio member and J. Hite resign from the planning board affective immediately. So voted all. A new planning board member will be needed to replace JH.
RP reported he has learned the stipend paid to the Town Treasurer may not be in keeping with other area Towns and should be reviewed during budget preparation time. All agreed to review the matter then. WJ will research other Towns stipends.
Adjourned 10:00 pm
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