Date:  October 24, 2005
Time:  7:00 pm
Place:  Town Office
Present: Selectmen Daniel Donovan, III and David Glines and Recording Secretary Peggy Arn

1) Stanley Schultz attended the meeting to inform the Board of comments that were made at the MACC Base budget meeting.  Representatives from Lyndeborough and Temple were in attendance.  The issue of Lyndeborough and Temple paying MACC Base per call was discussed.  The cost has been set at $75 per call from the fee of $50 last year.  This amount was arrived at and would be reflected in their next years operating budget.  Stanley made the statement that KMA has 82 towns and MACC Base only services 4 towns at the present time.  Mr. Schultz noted that Selectman Sowby of Lyndeborough made the statement that the Town of Lyndeborough would not be making payments to MACC Base for their services as of the end of this year.  He stated that it would be the problem of the Ambulance Committee and the Town of Wilton as to what would be done for payment to MACC Base.  Mr. Schultz noted that the Ambulance is proposing buying two-tone radios at considerable cost to Wilton, Lyndeborough and Temple.  He also presented discussed solutions to the Board.  It was made clear that Wilton would not support furnishing two-way radios which did not work with MACC Base.  Selectman Glines stated that he will do some research and the Board will continue discuss this issue and hopefully come up with a solution acceptable to all town involved.

2) Stanley Young from the Library Board informed the Selectman that they were very pleased with the work Steve Elliott had done on the drainage problem at the Library.  The firm of SVE Associates had been retained to design a plan to do the other drainage work around the foundation of the library.  The design was discussed with the Board, Steve Elliott and Stanley.  Selectman Glines suggested that some test holes be drilled and elevations needed to be done before proceeding with the work.  Mr. Young told the Board that he would like to go to the Budget Committee to ask for $50,000 to do the drainage work.  He told the Board that he would like the Board’s input and that he has gotten only one estimate for the work.  Stanley will work with Steve to do the test holes and then get back to the Board.

3) The Sidewalk Improvement Committee represented by Tracy Hutchins-Bardsley, Carl Anderson, Dawn Tuomala, Mickey Petersie, Steve Elliott and Brent Hautanen was next on the agenda.  Tracy told the Board that NRPC informed the Committee that the town could not include the paving of Main Street as part of their 20% of the agreement with DOT for the downtown sidewalk improvement grant.  The Committee asked the Board if the money was available.  Selectman Glines informed the Committee that the Board had planned on the paving, which would have been part of the resurfacing budget of the town and the money had not been approved by the budget committee that would be part of the town’s 20%.  Mr. Glines stated that the money would not be appropriated until the year in which it would be expended.  Chairman Donovan stated that the Committee would have to request the town’s portion of the grant from the budget committee, it would be a warrant article and would have to be approved at this year’s town meeting.

4) Brian Adams and Dawn Tuomala then presented to the Board their issue.  Ms. Tuomala preceded their questions to the Board by with a brief background of the problem.   She is representing Brian Adams as heir to the Tuttle property of which Ms. Tuomala is laying out a sub-division on.  Abutting land owner, Robert Bragdon, applied to the Zoning Board and was granted, a variance for the construction of a driveway on two lots.  He was granted the variance with the stipulation that the driveway construction and grading not to adversely affect drainage to or from existing abutting properties.  The lot line adjustment and site plan stated this stipulation.  Ms. Tuomala stated that when Mr. Bragdon put in the culvert, it was higher than it was supposed to be and the ditch was not properly build, which results in high spots.  This culvert and swale hold back the natural flow of water and in the winter when it freezes, it causes the abutting land to be flooded.  The question was then posed to the Board, would the Board write a letter to Mr. Bragdon asking him to fix his culvert and drainage to conform to the requirements on his site plan.  Mr. Glines stated that he would help Peggy compose a letter to Mr. Bragdon.

5) Dawn then gave the Board a report on Carnival Hill.  She had contacted them to fix the washout of the lower walk way around the athletic field.  Wheeler had someone at the site but Dawn felt that rather than repairing the damage, they had actually made the problem worse.  It was agreed that Steve Elliott would do the repair work and the cost would be deducted from the amount the town is retaining from the contract.  Dawn will compose a letter addressed to Wheeler’s Construction telling them of the Board’s decision to do the work.

6) At 8:45 pm, Chairman Donovan adjourned the regular meeting on a motion and called a non-public session per RSA 91-A:3,II(a).

7) The regular Selectmen’s meeting was called to order at 9:25 pm.

8) Welfare Officer Charles McGettigan attended the meeting to continue a welfare case he had been working on.  The case was discussed in length and the decision was made to deny this payment due to extenuating circumstances.

9) The Board reviewed and signed the following:

l.  An invoice from Monadnock Survey for Carnival Hill work
2. An invoice for legal fees from Tower, Crocker & Mullins
3. One Current Use Change Release
 4. A letter to NRPC in reference to an invoice for the sidewalk program
5.  Payroll for the week ending October 22, 2005
6.  Bills for the week ending October 22, 2005
7. A revised U-Turn Ordinance

10) The correspondence and informational material was reviewed.
11) Chairman Donovan stated a public hearing will have to be set up for the Police and Fire Departments to receive donations from the Longfellows Organization.

The meeting was adjourned on a motion, with all in favor at 10:45 p,m.

Respectfully submitted;

Peggy Arn, Recording Secretary