Selectmen approve COPS grant
Staff Report
GREENVILLE — Two days after the annual town meeting, the Greenville Board of Selectmen were back in session on June 3 where they handled a variety of issues.
Police Chief Jeff Pomerleau and Town Manager John Simko recently identified funding through the U.S. Department of Justice’s COPS MORE program that could be used to fill part of the weekly schedule with a full-time officer instead of reserve officers, whose availability varies and poses a challenge to fill shifts each week.
The board voted to allow Simko and Pomerleau to seek funding on behalf of the town for 75 percent of the cost of an additional full-time police officer for a 3-year period with no obligation for continued employment past that time, and to accept the funds should they be awarded for this purpose.
The town’s 10-year road improvement plan had to be altered this spring due to heavy weather-related damage to East Road.
On the recommendation of Simko, the board authorized him to draft an agreement with Mike Theriault Construction for road work on the gravel portion of East Road, the total cost not to exceed $118,760. Payments will be broken into five installments beginning with $35,000 in 2015 and then four equal annual payments at zero percent interest, to include a standard road work warranty.
The agreement will be reviewed by legal counsel and executed so that work may be completed this year.
Other items at the meeting included a presentation of a downtown Greenville map by Bonita Doughty which will be available free of charge to visitors.
Doughty “donated her time and talent to the project and the cost of printing was completely covered by a generous donation from Camden National Bank,” according to the minutes of the board meeting.
The board thanked Doughty for her contribution and agreed by consensus to allow the sign at the boardwalk to be “repurposed” to display this map.
Fire Chief Matt St. Laurent outlined a request to swap the utility truck body at the fire department for an aluminum flatbed body, which will meet the department’s needs a lot better. The board authorized St. Laurent to draft and execute an agreement for the exchange with Joe Pelletier Jr. of Greenville at no cost to the town, including labor and materials
Selectmen also approved a new 15-year airport hangar lease for Ron Barriault of Auburn, assuming the last three years of a current lease held by Steve Hibbs and adding 12 more years for a total of 15. Barriault is buying the private hangar owned by Hibbs, which sits on the lot.