JAY – Residents unanimously voted to transfer $29,200 from the town’s undesignated fund Monday to a Fire Department reserve fund so the town can buy a new rescue-pumper truck.
More than 30 people at a special town meeting breezed through three articles in 10 minutes.
The Fire Rescue Department already has about $312,000, plus interest, in the reserve account. The truck costs $345,000 and is expected to be ready in September 2006.
Voters also voted to amend the town’s Environmental and Control Ordinance, which increases fees for subdivision applications and sets up an escrow account for the Planning Board if a study needs to be conducted during a subdivision application.
Attendees also agreed, with only one person opposing, to enter into a purchase and sales agreement with the state to buy a strip of land at the end of Commercial Drive.
The drive is the access road to Jay Plaza on the McDonald’s Restaurant side.
The 50- by 66-foot strip would allow the town to extend the road over the former railroad bed to access the town’s 34 acres that are in a state economic development zone.
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