JAY – Town Manager Ruth Marden plans to present selectmen Monday with a range of tax rates to choose from for this year.

The range will be substantially lower than the current rate of $13.86 per $1,000 of property valuation, she said.

“Our budgets were conservatively lower and there is new value for the gas plant and the mill, and this year we get 100 percent reimbursement for equipment tax that had been added this year, but it goes to 90 percent reimbursement next year,” she said.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 11 at the town office.

The board will also hear a proposal to install a wind turbine at the transfer station in an attempt to help defray the cost of electricity, which is very high there, Marden said.

The station needs three-phase power, a stronger current, to operate the baler that compresses and wraps recyclables.

“We hope to reduce the electricity bill by 50 percent,” she said.

Marden said she will ask selectmen which state laws they want the deputy code enforcement officer to enforce governing junkyard, dangerous building, nuisance, swimming pools, manufacturing housing board, among others.

Now, enforcement only occurs when complaints are received, she said.

Marden received five applications for the position of deputy code enforcement officer and conducted interviews. She planned to make a decision on a candidate and present her selection to the board Monday.

The meeting kicks off with a public hearing on a special entertainment permit for the Spruce Mountain Festival from noon to 8 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 23 at Spruce Mountain.

Other items on the agenda include discussion of the veterans’ monument requested by resident Hyla Friedman, reserve officer wages and a county survey request for information.