Government at a glance

What: New Gloucester selectmen

Met: Monday, Aug. 6

Tax rate

Issue: Selectmen set the 2007-2008 tax rate at $10.20 per $1,000 valuation.

The scoop: Assessor Nancy Pinette’s report states the town must raise $4,463,355 by taxes. The money pays for SAD 15, Cumberland County assessment, Pineland Tax Increment Financing plan and an overlay fund that is offset by $2.7 million in revenues.

Up next: Bills will be mailed to property owners this summer and are due by October.

Society request

Issue: The New Gloucester Historical Society’s request to lease a town parcel in Lower Gloucester was tabled without action.

Up next: The board wants to review a lease being drawn up by the Historical Society before taking action.

Water studies

Issue: Selectmen are funding water studies with Drumlin Environmental, LLC of Portland to find a suitable site for a future public water system to serve the Upper Village area.

The scoop: Town Planner Rebeccah Shaffner said Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection is working with Upper Gloucester residents who have gasoline-contaminated water in their wells and has joined the town’s water study efforts. Shaffner said the DEP will fund 50 percent of the cost of a public water supply to Upper Gloucester as a remedy to contaminated water caused from underground gasoline storage tanks leaking in Upper Gloucester during the 1980s.

Up next: Studies will be performed to find a water supply.