JAY – Selectmen opted Tuesday to adhere to a 1998 decision that requires all donations be made through the annual town meeting warrant.
The family of Kim Moreau, a teenager who has been missing for 17 years, had requested a donation to the search fund.
But selectmen’s Chairman Bill Harlow said it was recently brought to his attention that a vote by selectmen in 1998 requires donation requests to go before voters to be voted on once a year at the annual town meeting.
Selectmen had made the decision back then after receiving several donation requests after the budget was passed, Selectman Parker Kinney said.
In the last year, selectmen had voted to use some money in their contingency fund to give limited amounts to students wanting to go on a mission and compete at an athletic event.
Kinney said that there wasn’t a person around that doesn’t sympathize with Dick Moreau and his family.
But the policy is in place, Kinney said, and should be followed.
If Moreau needs the money for the search come spring, he could make another request and it could go before voters, Kinney said.
Harlow said the donation policy should come back before the whole board at another meeting to clarify when a donation should come out of taxes and when it should be done privately.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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