The fees raised a storm of controversy and a petition from residents.
OXFORD – Selectmen on Thursday formally agreed to remove wording from the transfer station’s operations manual seeking $10 a truckload from residents for dumping brush or waste wood.
The fees raised a storm of controversy and a petition from residents, and within weeks of adopting the manual, transfer station workers had stopped charging at the $10 a truckload rate.
Instead, they have been charging the standard $18 a ton for brush and waste wood, which only comes up to a few dollars when brought in a pickup truck and weighed.
They also accepted the low bid of Commercial Paving of Scarborough for chipping brush at the station. Commercial Paving bid $2,750 for the service, including removal, while the other bidder, P.R. Russell of Richmond, bid $5,295.
Commercial Paving’s bid said all brush would be removed by June, which bothered Solid Waste Committee Lois Pike.
She said Department of Environmental Protection officials will only allow brush piles to reach a certain size before they must be removed.
Town Manager Mike Huston said the June removal deadline “should be OK if no one calls the DEP and tells them to come look at it.”
Selectmen also agreed to put out to bid repairs on Whittemore Road. A paving job done by Commercial Paving last year isn’t holding up, and the company has agreed to credit the town $4,000, said Head Selectman David Ivey. “We’ll take the credit,” regardless of who wins the bid, he said.
An abatement was granted to Michael Ferron for $213.01.
The board agreed to waive the $92.40 building permit fee for a family on Webber Brook Road that is replacing their home with a used mobile home being provided to them by the efforts of a church youth group.
Tom Cushman, Walter Lang, Walter Mosher, Ted Heidrich and Stacia Cordwell were formally appointed to the Municipal Facilities Committee.
A cemetery tree cutting contract was also awarded to Webster Tree Service Inc., of Auburn of $3,330.
ggeraghty@sunjournal.com
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