JAY – Selectmen voted Monday for the winning logo for the town, which will feature the Androscoggin River winding amid its banks, with trees dotting the landscape and an eagle in the sky.
The board also selected a new slogan to go with the logo: “Proud of our past, working for our future.”
The two Jay residents, Adrian “Drig” Legere, who submitted several hand-drawn logo entries, and Rhonda Irish, who created the slogan, will receive a gift certificate for $100 each to any business in town.
More than 50 entries were submitted for the contest, said Town Manager Ruth Marden.
Some selectmen had reviewed the entries previously, and others did so during the selectmen’s meeting to determine the winners. Selectman Raymond Pineau said he liked them all as he reviewed them Monday.
Selectmen chose to combine two of Legere’s logo entries and Irish’s slogan. They will ask Legere, a talented artist, to put them together for a finished product, which will go on the town’s stationery and other town products.
In other business, selectmen reviewed a report assessing fire-apparatus needs with Fire Rescue Chief Brian Shink and his brother, Deputy Chief Scott Shink.
Scott Shink said he had reviewed the independent study with 29 members of the department at the last meeting. The members “pretty much” agreed with the assessment, he said. It contains recommendations for buying trucks and equipment, developing a strategic plan, adopting an open-bidding process, developing a departmental marketing strategy and adopting a short and long-range capital improvement program.
Brian Shink said the department is doing a lot of the items now and will be working on others.
A committee will also be established again to develop a plan to seek bids on a new truck; the study indicated that truck should be purchased this year.
In other business, selectmen:
• Voted 3-1, with on abstention, to approve an application to install a streetlight at the end of Marcello Street. Selectman Alan Labbe was opposed and Selectman Rick Simoneau abstained. Simoneau said it was a conflict of interest because he is related to the applicant.
• Approved Town Manager Ruth Marden’s plan to submit nomination papers for vice president of a Maine Municipal Association board.
• Signed a special entertainment permit for the Veterans of Foreign War.
• Received an update on reactivating the Jay Development Committee.
Selectmen have also requested that Jay School Superintendent Robert Wall and School Committee members attend the May 9 selectmen’s meeting to discuss collaboration efforts with other school departments.
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