TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen will meet today where it will consider a memorandum of agreement with the Maine Army National Guard for construction of a facility at the Head of Tide Park on Cathance Road.
The meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the municipal building at 100 Main St.
According to a memo from Parks and Recreation Director Pam LeDuc, the agreement will outline an understanding of what the town’s and National Guard’s responsibilities will be.
The Guard is willing to construct two pavilions, two vault toilets, two gates, two kiosks and picnic tables, according to LeDuc’s memo. National Guard crews also would construct rock walls using some remaining feldspar stones to help secure a variety of historical artifacts at the park, which is located at the former site of a feldspar mill. The Guard would build the parking area for people with disabilities, and a boat drop-off area adjacent to the current boat launch.
Under terms of the proposed agreement, the work would be completed this summer.
Assistance from the National Guard would result in a huge cost savings to the Head of Tide Park fundraising efforts, LeDuc wrote, largely due to the fact that the Guard’s time will be used as a match to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Grant the town received this year. The savings will enable to town to go further with the park development in the first phase.
In other business planned for today’s meeting, selectmen are scheduled to:
— Consider action on the list of five tax-acquired properties. Total taxes due on each range from $ 734.35 for a mobile home to $18,690.59 for a cape assessed at $535,500, counting land and building.
— Consider accepting a Department of Environmental Protection grant for watershed planning.
— Consider a recommendation from the assessor to abate personal property taxes from 2010. The amount to be abated is $190.86 for a company that disposed of its assets in 2010 but the account was not closed by the assessing office.
— Consider accepting a Yamaha all-terrain vehicle seized as a result of a drugrelated court case, if so ordered by the court.
— Hear updates from John Shattuck, economic and community development director, and from Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority.
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