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