Safety department employees will receive new vests.
DIXFIELD – Selectmen OK’d a request Monday by Public Works Director David Orr to paint the department’s trucks blue.
Orr raised the question after advising the board that when the new plow truck arrives, it would be either white or orange.
A town meeting vote on June 7 gave municipal officers the authority to borrow up to $70,000 for a new plow truck. It was also explained at that meeting that money would be taken out of the reserve funds to buy the department a replacement pickup truck.
However, at Monday night’s meeting, Town Manager Nanci Allard said she didn’t want to take money out of reserve funds.
“I’d rather wait until tax bills are out and we’ve got some cash flow,” she said.
Selectmen Chairman Hugh Daley said the same thing could be done with the voter-approved purchase of a police cruiser.
Daley also gave Orr authority to purchase new safety vests for department employees after saying their vests “are in really bad shape.”
Discussion over a sewer variance request from Lyle White was canceled after Allard revealed that the property in question wasn’t White’s.
Selectmen also gave Allard the authority to hire a part-time department laborer after town meeting voters OK’d raising $5,000 for the position.
Orr initially said he’d like the laborer to work 28 hours a week doing mowing and trimming work and watering town-owned fields through the summer.
However, Selectman Sandra Buchanan said she believed the state just changed its unemployment laws requiring towns to pay seasonal workers unemployment depending on how many hours they were hired to work.
Daley thus suggested hiring someone to work less hours.
Orr also said that culvert work and gravel hauling had begun in preparation for the Averill Road reconstruction project.
In other business, the board welcomed newly elected Selectman Stephen Donahue and re-appointed Daley as chairman and re-elected Selectman Eugene Skibitsky as vice chairman.
tkarkos@sunjournal.com
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