RUMFORD — Less than a dozen people at Thursday night’s special town meeting unanimously OK’d two warrant items.
The first was to approve and submit a Community Development Block Grant application for not more than $300,000. It also authorizes selectmen to accept such funds, provided the grant doesn’t require matching funds from the town, which it doesn’t.
Rumford is applying for a CDBG Housing Assistance Grant to help bring buildings into compliance with current code requirements, with restoration of historical buildings and with lead abatement.
The second warrant item was to accept the 2009-10 town audit. Voters approved the town report at the annual business meeting in June, with the exception of the town audit.
That and a prior audit completed by Harold Blake of Hallowell had to be reviewed by a licensed auditor after it was learned that Blake’s license to conduct municipal audits was in dispute.
Auditor Ron Smith of Buxton was hired to review the audits, which he did and told selectmen in August that the town’s finances were “rock solid.”
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