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Town of Lyme
Board of Selectmen
Minutes for December 18, 2008
- At 8:00 am Simon opened the meeting. The following attended all or part of the meeting: Simon Carr (chair), Charles Ragan (member), Dick Jones (member), Dina Cutting (administrative assistant), Fred Stearns (road agent), Mike Hinsley (fire chief) and Lee Larson.
- Fred came in to discuss two items:
- He wished to shift boiler fuel at the highway garage from wood pellets @ $275/ton to locally produced corn @ $190 per ton. Dina reported that after checking with the boiler distributor, the Town could make the change with no adverse affects. The Board approved the change in fuel.
- He reported that keeping the east part of the triangle of Franklin Hill Road’s intersection with the Dorchester Road safe was an ongoing problem in winter. After a discussion, it was decided that this should be closed for safety reasons this winter.
- The following administrative matters were discussed and actions taken:
- The minutes of December 11th were approved as submitted.
- The manifest was reviewed and approved.
- The Energy Committee’s informal request to hold a raffle was discussed. Dick moved and Charles seconded a motion to disapprove a raffle by a Town Committee. The motion carried unanimously.
- The agreement with the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission to participate in Household Hazardous Waste Days on July 25th and October 10th was reviewed and approved.
- The proposed allocation of the Budget Committee’s $17,730 cut in the Board’s proposed 2009 budget recommendation was reviewed, and it was agreed to pass out a revised worksheet showing the Board’s allocation of this cut at the BC’s next meeting.
- A logger’s complaint about branches brushing his logging trucks on Lmphire Hill Lane was discussed, and it was agreed that no action would be taken this winter and it would be forwarded to the Road Agent for possible inclusion on his summer work list.
- The response to this last week’s ice storm was discussed. Mike came in briefly to advise the Board that the state had requested that emergency generators be made available to other communities. Since most of these are privately owned, the Board said that their owner’s permission would be required.
- Lee came in to advise the Board on his research on resolution of the Town Forrest/Walter Young property boundary. It was agreed that Lee would represent the Town in informal discussion to attempt to resolve the 20.5 acre parcel discrepancy between the Town’s and Young’s surveys.
- The Board discussed the carry over of appropriated but unexpended funds to next fiscal year. Dick moved and Simon seconded a motion to carry over the following funds:
- Master Plan $16,296.12 appropriated in 2007
- Master Plan $5,000.00 appropriated in 2008
- Computer System Upgrade CRF $5,843.17 appropriated in 2008
- Property Reappraisal CRF $16,536.70 appropriated in 2008
The motion carried unanimously.
- The next regular meeting of the Board will be on January 8th. The meeting adjourned at 9:58.
R. G. Jones
recorder
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