JAY – Town Manager Ruth Marden plans to contact a state forester to discuss management plans for three town woodlots.
Selectmen asked Marden on Monday night to find the best way to proceed with the town’s 448 acres, which have some trees ready to be harvested, Marden said Tuesday.
She plans to contact state forester Bob Lesso and get request for proposals for management plans before she determines how to proceed.
Marden also said the hottest topic during Monday’s meeting was discussion on complaints about community use of the Middle School/Community Building gymnasium.
Several people have approached Selectmen Rick Simoneau and Barry McDonald about not being able to use the gym, Marden said, and they feel it is not in the spirit of the agreement that was made when the new school was built and connected to the Community Building.
The Community Building, which contains the gym, was not initially attached to the Jay Middle School.
Marden said Simoneau plans to talk to school Superintendent Bob Wall and maintenance and grounds Supervisor Sue Weston to see how the gym could be more accessible.
Wall said Tuesday that he plans to find out what the requests were and why those requesting the gym could not use it.
It might have been already booked when the person wanted to use it, Wall said.
It has certainly always been the school department’s intent to let the community have access to the gym, Wall said.
Marden also said Tuesday that she plans to develop a policy on the Boston Post Cane, which is presented to the oldest resident of the town.
She and other town workers are going to create a plaque for the cane and approach the Jay Historical Society to have the original cane and plaque mounted at the town office so that it will be on view.
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