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#+title: 2023-05-30

* DONE Castine select board work session
<2023-05-30 Tue 9:00-10:00>

+ 131 Perkins Street - Brophy Cottage
  - Tear down and rebuild
  - 1820s, found bones under the building
+ Muir application in, expected June 6
+ Purchasing power flexibility
+ Benta Hartman complaint about Water Street retaining wall
  - Wall moving side to side, but complaint that brick damage on private property is worsening
+ Wharfs and Weir's act, two findings the board has to make
+ Contractor cleared all the storm drains, not just a third
  - Crunch now, and may not get stripping done, $3300 left
  - Overdraw account and try to find money
+ Fire Dept has had a movement afoot to move repeater to cell phone tower
  - Bid stage, only way we pay for it is via capital account
  - Would draw down below $2,000
+ Blue Hill CEO backfill, during June 19-29 vacation for Shawn - $25/hr
+ 26 Water street site evaluation done by Bucksport CEO
+ 9 building and use application
+ Backshore beach has been cleaned up
+ Algae mitigation plan for the swim pond
  - Roberta will talk to someone at the Shaw institute about algae
+ Boards and committees on June 20, not June 19 for
+ Summit Solar came back with a project for the town
  - Battle Ave ground array could be tricky
  - $76k, spring street pump station, 99.8% of annual power needs
  - Ground array on the back side of Spring Street
  - 34~ panels
  - Looking at $28-29k all-in, including landscaping
  - Payback would be 2.9-3.6 years
  - 24-26 panels to take average home off grid
  - Public information session could be a finding of fact
+ Community solar project at transfer station
  - Require 6 acres, could squeeze 8
  - Landfill closure order required
+ Soap in the pump station
  - Second or third time we've had soap suds in the Sea Street pump station