Town of Lisbon
Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date: April 13, 2009
Selectmen Present: Ruth Robar (RAR), Duncan McKee (DM), John Northrop (JN) (absent)
Town Administrator: Regan Pride (RP)
Administrative Assistant: Barbara Menchin
JN opened the meeting at 4:30 PM
SELECTMEN’S MATTERS:
The Board reviewed the agenda for the week of April 20, 2009.
TOWN ADMINISTRATOR: Regan Pride
RP told the Board that a local resident spoke to him regarding a house on High Street that appears to be accumulating trash. BM informed the Board that Mr. Stan Borkowski (Lisbon Building/Code Inspector) was aware of the problem and told the Board of the various letters that have gone out to the owner of this piece of property. BM stated she would have Mr. Borkowski re-check the property and send another letter, if necessary, stating that if the property was not cleaned up, the town would clean it up and lien the property.
RP reviewed a list of categories that could be submitted to University of New Hampshire regarding the Government Management Scholarship Program.
RP discussed the CodeRED high-speed telephone emergency notification service that Grafton County Sheriff’s Department has contracted with Emergency Communications Network. The CodeRED system gives County Dispatch the ability to deliver pre-recorded emergency telephone notification/information messages to targeted areas of their dispatch area. For further information one could contact Grafton County at 603-787-2111 extension 144 or email codered@graftoncountysheriff.net or online at www.graftoncountywheriff.net/codered.
RP informed the Board that Mr. Roger Robar had contacted him ATV’s coming across the Railroad Station parking lot. Mr. Robar requested the purchase of pressure treated timbers to help prohibit their crossing in this area.
RP told the Board that the office received a check in the amount of $1,000.00 from the WalMart Foundation to the Police Department and the office received a check in the amount of $5,000.00 from the State of New Hampshire for the Hazard Mitigation Grant. RP noted the Board could not accept the checks at this night’s meeting as the acceptance of the checks must be publicly noticed. RP stated this could be done at next week’s meeting.
RP met with Mr. Kevin Schofield (Schofield Septic Service) and discussed the agreement for the filtrate at the lagoons. RAR moved to table this subject until April 20, 2009 so that JN could give his input. DM 2nd, discussion tabled until April 20, 2009. The Board requested RP to contact Mr. Schofield and invite him to appear at the April 27, 2009 board meeting. DM moved to accept the initial payment which was received from Mr. Schofield.
RP distributed water/sewer revenue history data to the Board and reminded them the need to revisit the rates and rate structure prior to the next billing cycle. The total water usage is down and therefore so is the revenue.
DEPARTMENT HEADS: Jody Gagnon (Lisbon Life Squad)
JG reported her quarterly amount of emergency calls and discussed various types of billing services in case the Life Squad were to start transporting patients to the hospital (Littleton Regional or Cottage Hospitals) and wished to bill.
JG told the Board that she was very satisfied with the performance of the new Life Squad Truck.
DEPARTMENT HEADS: George Stevens (Lisbon Fire Department)
GS told the Board he has made several phone calls to various contractors for pricing on the new fire station. To date he has not received any calls back.
GS told the Board that he felt as if some good had come out of the conversation with Mr. Ray Burton (Governor’s Council) regarding training of volunteer firemen. He hopes it open up a line of communication that wasn’t open previously.
GS stated Mr. Mark Taylor (Lisbon Life Squad) gave the fire department a water training class. GS felt this was a very valuable piece of training and that Mr. Taylor did a very good job.
GS further told the Board that any person wishing to burn is required to have a burn permit.
PUBLIC INPUT: Lisbon Main Street, Inc. (Roger Gingue and Ruth Taylor)
RG & RT discussed the upcoming Lilac Days festivities. RG stated he was encouraged and expected to have a “fun weekend”. RG & RT discussed various events that would be held on the Memorial Day Weekend and stated that everyone on the committee has done an outstanding job in putting the Lilac Day Weekend together in a very short time.
RT spoke of three different grants Main Street, Inc. has been awarded. One is for $500.00 from New Hampshire Department of Food and Agriculture for the upcoming Farmer’s Market, one is for $1,500.00 from CDFA for a consumer intercept service to collect information on who stops at what businesses in the area and the other Grant is for $2,000.00 from NH Charitable Organization which will add to the marketing research grant. It is Main Street, Inc.’s hopes to assist the local businesses. RT further stated that from the marketing research statistics, Main Street, Inc. would then have a public meeting to discuss the results.
RG stated Main Street would like to discuss the Master Plan with the Planning Board so that Main Street could get a better understanding of what the Master Plan is about.
RT stated that Thursday, April 16, 2009 there would be a Main Street 101 training. She further stated that there are people in the community who do not know what the purpose of Main Street, Inc. is. RT said that there is a need to inform people so that it can further enhance the town.
RG discussed the possible introduction of broadband into the area and how that could help with attracting more businesses.
RG requested RP to contact Local Government Center and other sources to see what other communities have done to assist properties in improving the visual looks of a town’s Main Street.
DM moved to adjourn, RAR 2nd. All voted in favor.
Meeting adjourned at 7:45 pm.
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