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JAY Selectpersons voted 3-1 in separate votes Monday to approve the proposed curbside collection budget line and the capital paving reserve line.
Jay selectpersons chose town Financial Director Lisa Bryant’s logo design Monday for the cover of the 2020 annual town report.
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Votes taken on the two budget articles on Feb. 1 were considered invalid because the town Administrative Ordinance requires a unanimous vote if only three of the five members are present.
Selectperson Gary McGrane opposed the proposed $145,600 contract for curbside collection of trash and recyclables and a paving capital reserve line for $325,000. He had done the same on Feb. 1.
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JAY Selectpersons voted Monday to increase the hourly wage for certified reserve police officers from $16.50 to $20 for full-timers and from $16.50 to $18 for part-timers.
Reserve officers are hard to find, Police Chief Richard Caton IV said.
Wilton recently increased its hourly wage for reserve officers to $25, he said. Livermore Falls pays its reserves nearly $19 an hour.
The full-time officers are allowed to handle more situations than part-timers, he said.
“Hopefully the increased wage will encourage them to work more,” he said.
The reserve officers help keep the overtime budget down, he said.
The Select Board also voted to sell a 2013 Ford SUV cruiser for $800 to a scrap yard, which will pick it up. It has a motor issue that would need to be fixed through a dealer. The motor is burning oil, the transmission is acting up, and it has rotted rocker panels that will be an issue at inspection, according to Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said.
January
Three teams from Spruce Mountain Middle School were recognized for their accomplishments at the Maine FIRST LEGO League Championship held in December at the Augusta Civic Center. Members of ‘Just the Incredible 6’ won the Global Innovation Award and finished 10th in the robotic performance portion of the competition. The team Silent Bot Deadly took 11th out of the 28 teams in the robotic performance while Space Savers, a team of sixth graders were recognized with the Core Values Gracious Professionalism Award.
More than three months after the explosion at the LEAP Inc. central office building in Farmington, Larry Lord’s condition was upgraded to fair. Lord received burns over more than half of his body in the explosion at the LEAP building where he was maintenance supervisor. He is credited with saving the lives of several LEAP co-workers after he got them out of the building moments before the explosion at Farmington Falls Road.