RUMFORD – Directors at Wednesday night’s River Valley Growth Council meeting in Rumford learned that some of them may have to go. Or, the organization must revise its articles of incorporation, Executive Director Rosie Bradley said.
She said the articles state that the council can have a minimum of eight directors and a maximum of 18.
“We have 28 directors and 20 alternates, so we are in violation of our articles of incorporation,” she said.
“We must either change the articles or trim the board to a more manageable size. This needs to be looked at,” Bradley added.
Directors discussed the matter, then went on to other business without really answering Bradley’s question.
About 15 directors and alternates attended the meeting.
The corporation was organized to encourage and assist the economic and commercial development of Andover, Byron, Canton, Carthage, Dixfield, Hanover, Mexico, Peru, Roxbury and the Rumford area, also known as the River Valley region. The year of incorporation was not immediately available.
In other business, Bradley said a furniture maker has proposed to create “some jobs on a short-term basis and money for the growth council” by removing wood flooring at the former Diamond Match mill in Peru.
The 80,000-square-foot mill complex was turned over to the growth council in 2003 by its most recent owners, the Archibald family of Mexico.
Bradley declined to identify the man interested in removing flooring in the mill, but said he was willing to pay the council a per-month lease amount to be negotiated.
Additionally, the man, she said, would be paying the council for any wood removed from the mill’s upper floor.
She said a second man, who is seeking a 60,000-square-foot building for a business, is also interested in the building itself. She declined to name him or his business proposal.
Council directors empowered the Property Management Committee to meet with and negotiate with the furniture maker and Peru selectmen next week at the site.
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