Town Council Agenda

Now that I have a few meetings as a Town Councilor under my belt, I thought I would give a quick update about some recent happenings.

Our first few meetings were quick and uneventful, but there's been more substance recently and Wednesday's meeting addressed some town business that I wanted to share in case you didn't attend or watch it on TV. We dealt with 9 resolutions, and both the agenda and the backup data are posted online if you care to read through the documents. I'd like to focus on 2 items:

We voted on a resolution to contract engineering services for the bike path project along Route 108. This has been a long time coming! Here's the background:

I support this project and was happy to vote in favor of the resolution Wednesday night. My concern is that we appropriated that money 4 years ago--it remains to be seen what the cost will be in today's dollars and whether or not that will impact future votes.

The second item is paving. The Council approved a resolution to appropriate funds to pave an additional mile of Ash Swamp Road and put the finish course on the part that was done last year. One mile. Our DPW Director explained that we have about 55 miles of roads in Newmarket--if we continue to pave a mile/year, we better hope for some milder winters.

Our next meeting is June 4th at 7pm.