MINOT — Selectmen on Monday received an update on the effects the Maine Power Reliability Program will have on the section of Central Maine Power Co’s transmission line that parallels the Minot-Auburn town line.
Effects on Minot property owners will be minimal, Chris Marshall, public involvement specialist with the engineering firm of Burns & McDonnell, assured selectmen at the public hearing after the board’s regular meeting.
“Essentially, all that will happen is the line will be raised 5 feet. Seven of the carrying structures in Minot will be affected,” Marshall said.
The project is part of the $1.4 billion project to increase reliability of the power grid in Maine by looping what essentially is now a linear system.
The line in question is the 6.8 mile section between the Hotel Road substation in Auburn and the point where Bailey Road enters Turner in the north end of Minot.
Statewide, the project should be complete by the summer of 2015. Minot’s section is scheduled to begin in July and completed in November.
In the business portion of the board’s meeting, selectmen reviewed the form letter prepared by town attorney Norm Rattey that will be sent to owners whose properties have been foreclosed on for unpaid taxes.
There are four such properties the town has taken.
Selectmen met with a representative of one property owner and are working on a plan so she can reacquire her property.
Selectmen have proposed a similar plan to the owner of a second property, but have yet receive word that the plan is acceptable.
Selectmen also agreed to support a resolution, prepared by Mark Robinson, Fayette town manager, protesting the change the Federal Emergency Management Agency made in its regulations that could eliminate ice storms from the list of disasters for which towns could be reimbursed for extraordinary expense.
Selectmen also received, with sincere regret, George Buker’s resignation from the Planning Board and appointed Charles Buker to replace him.
Michael G. Hemond was appointed as an alternate to the Planning Board.
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