MINOT – Road Manager Arland Saunders is pretty much ready for winter.
“We picked up the 1998 International plow truck at H.P. Fairfield’s today and it is ready to go for winter with the ground speed control installed,” Saunders told selectmen this week.
With the price of road salt up, Saunders said he is trying his best to use salt and fuel as efficiently as possible. The ground speed control, he said, helps to insure that just the right mixture of sand and salt per foot of road is dropped.
Saunders added that plow frames will be installed on all the town trucks by the end of the week. He noted that his crew will be assisted in sanding and plowing by Mike Hemond, Peter Hemond and Maynard and Sons Trucking.
In his report on roads being constructed in new subdivisions, Saunders said he probably will issue a driveway permit for a second lot that will use the Pleasant Drive right of way in the recently approved Brighton Hill Acres subdivision.
Originally, Saunders hesitated to issue the permit for the second driveway because it meant that the second driveway would enter onto the first driveway rather than directly onto a public road.
Saunders said he would be waiting for results of tests taken on Highland Drive in the Center Minot Heights subdivision to determine whether the two layers of pavement have bonded properly.
Selectmen also reviewed a letter Town Administrator Rhonda Irish is sending to Maine Municipal Association, seeking legal advice on George Buker’s petition for the town to develop Old Buckfield Road.
Two weeks ago, Buker told selectmen that, as written, the petition does not achieve what he wants. Selectmen are seeking advice on whether or how the original petition could be withdrawn and whether they can reverse their decision that declared Old Buckfield Road “presumed abandoned.”
Selectmen also signed a grant application in which the town is seeking $30,000 from the Maine Department of Conservation to help develop Phase I of the walking trail system on land between the town office in the Minot Consolidated School.
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