RUMFORD — At Monday night’s board meeting, selectmen are expected to discuss possibly hiring an efficiency consultant to help reduce municipal government costs.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23, in the town hall auditorium.
Discussion will also focus on the board’s goal to cut 10 percent from the current budget.
A 22.5 percent tax hike this year caused by a multimillion-dollar drop in valuation of the town’s two biggest taxpayers, NewPage Corp. and Brookfield Renewable Power, sparked the budget crisis.
Other agenda items include discussions to improve acoustics in the auditorium, furlough days for town employees, and providing winter sand and selling cold patch to residents.
Selectmen are also expected to possibly authorize the sale of wood from the recent removal of dead trees lining Hancock Street and approve an engineering bid for the Swift River Park housing complex.
Additionally, the board will appoint members to a new Wind Power Committee, decide whether to hold a workshop with the Wind Power Education Committee and accept the resignation of Selectman Robert Cameron.
Cameron resigned last month, effective Nov. 23, because he will be away for the winter. Selectmen will hold a special Meet the Candidates forum at 4 p.m. Monday to hear from people who want to fill six months of Cameron’s remaining 18-month term.
The board will then choose and appoint one of those candidates toward the end of Monday night’s selectmen meeting.
Two executive sessions are also scheduled. The first involves a personnel matter with Town Manager Carlo Puiia, the Parks and Recreation Commission, and Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tim Gallant. The second involves a union negotiation matter with Puiia, police Chief Stacy Carter and town attorney Thomas Carey. It will be held toward meeting’s end.
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