NEWRY – Residents are asked by selectmen to assemble 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, for a special town meeting to consider appropriating $13,000 from surplus to cover an expected overdraft in the solid waste account.

Administrative Assistant Sylvia Gray said the extra funding is needed now because at the annual town meeting last March it was not possible to present an accurate number for solid waste costs for 2003.

She said $115,000 was approved for solid waste disposal at the March town meeting, but since Bethel included several projects to upgrade its transfer station the amount needed to cover Newry’s costs ran higher than expected.

“We are faced with an increase from what we estimated last spring of 2.82 percent. We had expected our share at the transfer station to run 37 percent of the cost of operating the station for 2003, but we have learned that our share will be 39.82 percent,” Gray said.

The special town meeting will convene in the conference room at the town office on Route 26 in Bear River.

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