Limington Select Board Hears Department Updates, Sets Bid Deadlines

[0:00] Fire Chief: Be applied in a few weeks, the broken cabinets and leaking sink have been removed and will be replaced after the floor is complete for equipment vehicles. Brush 9 is coming along, the lights and siren have been installed. The radio is on order and will be installed next month. The forestry skid unit is ordered with no set yet. Month to date, we have 5 calls behind last September year to date. We had 38 calls behind last year. There was 1 request for mutual aid this week and EMS call to soccer pay the chief work to combine 46 hours this week. Limington Parks and Rec Department current weekly programs are Coffee Social every Wednesday from 9 30 to 11 30 at the Old Town Hall, Tickle Ball outdoors at Blake Memorial Fields for the summer, Rec Soccer for children in pre-K up to 7th grade, before and after care at HBM Room, open registration at upcoming events and programs. You can register online at lymingtonrec.com. Early release and teacher in-service child care on October 17th for the first teacher in-service day. We are heading to Pumpkin Valley Farm in Dayton to do the corn maze and pick pumpkins. You can sign your child up for these adventures on our website, $45 for teacher in-service days. Public safety fair, Saturday, October 3rd from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Municipal Complex. Bring your family down for a touch of truck, face painting, demonstrations and lunch. Learn about how your Fire Department, Animal Control Officer, Public Works Department and Rec Department serve our town every day. The Craft Fair October 17th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Register on our website to be a vendor at this event or join us the day of to do some shopping. Annual Trunk Retreat October 24th at Blake Memorial Field from 3 p.m. to 5 30 p.m. Please reach out to Hannah Mason our assistant director at assistant rep director at livingtonmain.gov or sherrybeattie at brbeattie at fairpoint.net if you would like to have a trunk at our event. Our next mystery lunch will be Wednesday October 28th after our usual coffee social time. We will be leaving the Old Town Hall at 11 a.m. There's a $5 transportation fee and participants are responsible for purchasing their own lunch. Please reach out to Madison if you're interested in going with us, 239-9290. Our second annual Festival of Trees will be Friday, December 4th through Sunday, December 6th this year. Please check out our website for details if you're interested in having a tree at our event. For other news, the old playground equipment at Momadeo was removed yesterday and we have started the process of putting away all the picnic tables for winter. The buoy line and docks will come out tomorrow. The reservation process for the Old Town Hall is moved online to the website, lymingtonrec.com. When you go to that website, please go to facilities and then Old Town Hall for the calendar reservation process and other details. If you have any questions or are interested in renting the Old Town Hall for a weekend event, please reach out to Madison or m dot moody at lymingtonmaine.gov. There's a fee of a hundred dollars for residents or 150 for non-residents and a 100 returnable deposit. Respectfully submitted. That is [3:48] Town Manager: it for the department report. Excellent. The town manager, weekly updates. Okay, my new hours are posted on the top website and on the window near the entrance to the municipal building. Anyone interested in serving on the financial advisory committee should email me. I had several meetings this past week regarding land use violations. Regulations. The Facilities Needs Committee will meet this coming Tuesday at 4 p.m. The agenda for that meeting, as well as agendas for the Select Board meetings, Financial Advisory Committee meetings, and Planning Board meetings can all be found on the Town website. The deadline to bid on surplus and unused items is October 1st. All bidding needs to be done on govdeals.com. Go to the Town website or Facebook page to see the catalog of items you can bid on and the RFP for the rooftop solar array for the municipal complex has been advertised and proposals are due by October 9th. [4:50] Select Board Chair: Excellent, thank you man. Old business. I've been absent a few weeks but I think everything was covered in whatever we've read for old business and everything down here. New business. New business. I will bring up. Although I wasn't here, I do watch the videos, and I do watch the online. [5:15] Fire Chief: When you said new business, that was it. [5:18] Select Board Chair: Okay. It didn't want to listen to me anymore. I think it does. Okay. Well, it sounds like we're not on. Oh, no. See, we're on. We're back. Or is that? Yeah, there we go. [5:33] Fire Chief: Yeah. Yeah, we're back on. Okay. So we'll keep. We're live. Yeah, that's just what they said. [5:40] Select Board Chair: Okay, thank you. That's the bonus of having this TV here so we can tell. Yeah, we keep glancing up at itself. Yeah, okay, well I'll restart the notifications. Town needs new members for the financial advisory committee. If you are interested, please contact the town manager. Deadline to bid on the town surplus and unused items is October 1st. All bidding is done on gov deals comm. Go to the town website or Facebook page to see the catalog of items you can bid on. Select bullet office hours will remain on Tuesdays from 4 to 8. Thank you. On Thursdays 4 to 8. I'm thinking [6:17] Fire Chief: Tuesdays. I know. We talked about Tuesdays. [6:21] Select Board Chair: Thursdays from 4 to 8 on-air meetings. Their time is 7 p.m. for the foreseeable future. Transfer station hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. A transfer station sticker must be attached to your vehicle's windshield for the disposal of all items. Transfer station stickers are available at the town's office for twenty dollars. No sticker is required to use the swap shop. The transfer station does not accept brush, yard clippings, or hazardous waste. Riverside recycling in Portland takes the hazardous waste. A friendly reminder to all residents, the building waste, furniture, and mattresses should not be left at curbside. We have a transfer station for those and I will add to that TVs, computers, and tires, which they're starting to pop up in some of these locations. One of them being the end of my road is having issues, so we'll TV's, tires, and electronics. Yeah, the people are putting out printers and TVs and it's all stuff that should be taken to the transfer station. Residents who recycle at the transfer station can have their name entered into the monthly raffle. Don't forget to ask for your ticket. You need the ticket to win and this month's prize is a gift card from Sleepers for two large pizzas. Thank you Bonnie for rounding these up. It's always great. Can't wait to see what the next one is. And general, what's that? General assistance applications are available at the town office during normal business hours. Applications must be filled out and accompanied with supporting documentation and must be signed and returned to the GA administrator or town clerk. The planning board meets at the municipal complex the first and third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. And that is a wrap if there's nothing else entertain a motion to adjourn I make a motion we adjourn okay I will second that motion so we got a motion in a second and all in favor we are adjourned at 718 Thank You David? Richard. Richard, jeez, I did it again. Sorry, Richard. Thank you, Richard. I'll get it. [8:51] Town Manager: No, it's still green. You can shut it off, Richard.