The combined selectboards of Norway and Paris sat together tonight at the front table in a determined effort to "right the ship" of the Norway Paris Solid Waste board of directors' interpretation of the interlocal agreement that was enacted by voters in both towns in June 2009.
One restated article of incorporation, and 3 resolutions removed the current directors, and temporarily put the two town managers in charge of the operations until new board members can be appointed. Atty. Crawford, of Bernstein & Shur, was on site to collect appropriate signatures, and will file them in Augusta tomorrow, if weather permits.
The Norway board left, and the remaining Paris business was perfunctory. A citizen asked if a way could be found, on a regular basis, to make information in the routine financial payments by the town, i.e., warrants approved each selectmen's meeting, available to voters. There is work being done on the town's website that will eventually make that easier; but for now a paper product, or at least a verbal account, will be forthcoming. To prove the point, Town Clerk Liz Knox handed the copy of the warrant information for this evening's approval (all public information, available in the office to the public upon request) over to the question-asker right then and there.
The next meeting for selectmen will be after the election, on a Thursday instead of the usual Monday: March 11.
There was a question about where the meeting would be, and a tiny comment from the front table that "We will plan to have the next three or four meetings in the fire station until the crowd lessens." Surely a careless, off-the-cuff comment, since the last gentleman to say "This will all settle down and we can get back to busines as usual" was very, very wrong....
