NEW SHARON – Voters agreed Thursday to spend more than $250,000 to buy 3 acres on Kimball Pond Road and build a salt and sand storage shed on it.
More than 50 residents attended the special town meeting.
Residents approved raising $20,000 by taxation to buy the land from brothers Rodney Porter and Malcolm Porter on the west side of Kimball Pond Road, off Cape Cod Hill Road.
The vote was all “ayes” except for one “no.”
Townspeople also unanimously authorized selectmen to spend up to $157,782.31 from the town’s sand salt reserve fund and all but one resident in attendance voted to borrow up to $100,000 to construct the building.
Selectman Maynard Webster said that the total cost of the project is expected to be about $270,000. The state is expected to reimburse the town between $65,000 and $70,000, Webster said.
Selectmen have been trying to buy land for a storage building for several years and move the town salt and sand pile off private property.
Voters also approved donating the money received from the state for snowmobile registrations to the newly formed New Sharon Snow Riders Snowmobile Club.
Townspeople also agreed, with a few voters objecting, to raise $2,500 for the support the new snowmobile club’s trail system.
Club President Sam Adams said the club needed the money to get going and plans to start raising money in various ways, including selling T-shirts and raffle tickets to assist the club in maintaining about 70 miles of trails.
The former Missing Links Snowmobile Club is in the process of disbanding, Adams said, and he is in hopes that some of the equipment from that club will be made available to the new club.
A lot of people use the trails for other than snowmobiling including cross country skiing, Adams said.
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