NEW SHARON – Voters are expected to consider raising $517,746 by taxation Saturday for a multitude of town services. That represents an increase of $45,400 more than last year.
Voters will also consider a number of issues at 9 a.m. March 6 at the Cape Cod School, including spending $272,760 to build a salt and sand storage building on a state-approved, town-owned site on Route 2.
Of that amount, voters will be asked to appropriate $155,800 from the sand and salt reserve fund and to borrow $116,960 to build the building. The site is about 115 feet by 340 feet and abuts the old Maine Department of Transportation sand and salt storage site.
Eventually, selectmen expect the state to reimburse the town 43 percent of the cost of the building’s construction.
Residents in this town of 1,300 are also being asked to approve the appropriation of $50,000 from the Fire Station reserve fund to buy 2.23 acres of land from David Ames to use for a future fire station and town office.
The account with the biggest proposed increase this year, Selectman Jim Smith said, is the road account.
Voters are being asked to raise and appropriate $258,000 for construction and maintenance of roads in 2004. That account is up $25,485 over last year, Smith said.
In the past, there has been a higher carry-over than the $2,925 available this year, he said.
In addition to the carry-over, $49,000 would come from Department of Transportation funds and $206,076 from taxation to cover road expenses.
Smith said voters are also being asked to raise about $2,000 more for care and maintenance of cemeteries. The request totals $7,000.
Solid waste disposal expenses are up $7,000 more than last year, Smith said. The amount being requested is $72,000.
The increase is due to large item pickup and people not recycling as much as they could, he said.
Townspeople are also looking at accepting a $194,400 federal grant and appropriating $21,600 from the firetruck reserve fund to match the grant to buy a new pumper tanker trunk.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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