JAY – Selectmen are expected to consider several proposed articles on Monday that would go on the warrants of town meetings in December and April. Many of the proposals are for big-ticket items.

The board is also scheduled to discuss a sewer pipe, which was crushed during a contractor’s construction work on Lavoie Street; renewal of the town manager’s contract; historical preservation; and results of transfer station hours survey.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the Community Center.

Chairman Bill Harlow said selectmen also are expected to discuss a change of the special town meeting date from Monday, Dec. 8 to Tuesday, Dec. 9.

Harlow is on the Franklin County Budget Committee, which is holding a budget hearing Dec. 8 in Farmington.

Jay selectmen oppose a proposal for one-stop funding for Sexual Assault Victims Emergency Services and SeniorsPlus through the county budget. Selectmen said at an earlier meeting, it’s not the agencies they oppose – but rather the loss of local control and the fact that Jay pays 30 percent of the county budget and would pay more under this proposal.

Harlow said he expects Fire Chief Brian Shink to bring forward a proposal for a new fire truck to go on the April town meeting warrant.

Superintendent Robert Wall also plans to be at Monday’s meeting to discuss a warrant article for the Dec. 9 meeting.

Jay School Committee members recently voted to ask voters to appropriate $55,689 from the School Department’s unexpended fund balance, as of June 30, to support the school food service program for the 2003-04 school year.

Selectmen also plan to include a couple of articles for the December special meeting, including $357,000 proposal to renovate highway and bus garages to meet state and federal regulations. Of that figure, $116,500 is already in reserve and the remainder of $240,500, if voters approve, would be transferred from the undesignated revenue fund.

Harlow also said the town’s Building Committee is expected to propose articles for the April meeting to put another $100,000 in reserve for a new town office/police station building, and to ask voters to consider using money already in reserve and to borrow about $400,000 to cover a new building.

Voters had previously rejected a new town office. But Harlow said the committee has reduced its estimate for the project to $900,000.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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