The Select Board has cancelled the budget workshop scheduled for Saturday, October 15th.
The Select Board has cancelled the budget workshop scheduled for Saturday, October 15th.
Select Board Meeting
Amended Agenda
Thursday, October 13th at 6:00pm
Town Hall
The Select Board will be meeting in non-public session to discuss a welfare case. A proposal for an energy audit will also be reviewed as well as any other business to come before the Board. After the aforementioned, the Board will conduct a budget workshop.
Committee members were Pat McLin (Planning Board), Mike Lapoint (Water District Commission), Mike Rollo (Select Board), and John Krebs, the town’s planning consultant. Liz Durfee from the Strafford Regional Planning Commission served as the project manager/consultant. The Select Board is grateful to the committee for their time and effort, to Liz Durfee who guided us through our paces and kept us on target and to John Krebs who generously donated his time to the grant.
The Select Board will be meeting on the following dates in order to work on the 2017 budget.
Thursday, September 29
6:00 pm
Thursday, October 13
6:00 pm
Saturday, October 15
11:00
(if needed)
Meetings will be held at the Town Hall
The Select Board and Road Agent Jeff St. Jean have been working with the Strafford Regional Planning Commission to pilot the Road Surface Management Systems (RSMS) developed by UNH’s Technology Transfer Center. A ten-year road plan (draft) was reviewed by the board and we are now ready to share this draft with the public.
The Select Board will host a public information session on the road plan on October 27, 6:30 pm in town hall.
The plan is available on the town website.
The Select Board met on Tuesday, September 20 to review the state’s guidance on the drought conditions in the state of NH. The guidance came to us via a phone conference call on Friday, September 16 with the state’s Drought Management Team. The Board voted to institute a ban on water usage in the town per RSA 41:11-d. This ban covers residential usage and pertains to residents with private wells as well as residents on the town’s public water system. The ban covers the watering of residential lawns and will become active on Tuesday, September 27. We encourage residents to read the entire ordinance and to pay close attention to the fines.
Additionally, we are providing resources that you can refer to for more information on the drought situation in the state.
The situation is a serious one. We will enforce the ban of required restrictions We also encourage residents to look for voluntary ways to conserve this most precious of natural resources by avoiding the following: washing vehicles, hosing off paved surfaces, filling swimming pools, power-washing houses.
We have created an informational page about the drought for residents. Please refer to it for important information for homeowners with private wells, information on the severity of the drought, and links to resources such as emergency financial assistance to help mitigate water issues.
View the Rollinsford 2016 Drought page »
On behalf of the Town of Rollinsford, New Hampshire, Consolidated Hydro New Hampshire, LLC (CHNH) is preparing to relicense the Rollinsford Hydroelectric Project (Project) with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission). CHNH, a subsidiary of Enel Green Power North America (EGPNA), operates and manages the Project under a lease agreement with the Town of Rollinsford. The Project (FERC No. 3777) is located on the Salmon Falls River, which establishes the border between the States of New Hampshire (NH) and Maine (ME), in Strafford County, NH and York County, ME. The FERC license expires on August 31, 2021.
In accordance with the Commission’s regulations, on August 31, 2016, the Town of Rollinsford commenced the relicensing process by filing its Notice of Intent (NOI) to file an application for license and Pre- Application Document (PAD) for the Project. Also, pursuant to the Commission’s regulations, the Town of Rollinsford requested the Commission’s approval to use the Traditional Licensing Process (TLP) for this Project.
The purpose of this email is to distribute copies of those documents to potentially interested federal and state resource agencies, Indian tribes, non-governmental organizations, and members of the public. A copy of the NOI, PAD, and TLP request is available for download at the FERC website using the following FERC eLibrary link: http://elibrary.FERC.gov/idmws/file_list.asp?accession_num=20160831-5132.
Paper copies are available upon request, please contact Kirk Smith at [email protected] or 603-428-4960.
If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Kevin Webb, Hydro Licensing Manager at 978-935-6039 or by email at [email protected].
The Town of Rollinsford holds an MS4 permit from the US Environmental Protection Agency which constrains the town to manage stormwater runoff in responsible ways so as not to further impair local waterways such as the Salmon Falls River, Rollins Brook, and Fresh Creek.
The town received a grant from the Piscataqua Regions Estuary Partnership (PREP) to review and develop stormwater-related regulations to be included with the town’s subdivision regulations. Liz Durfee, a planner with the Strafford Regional Planning Commission, serves as project manager of the grant and she will provide an overview of the committee’s work.
The Planning Board will be formally reviewing the proposed stormwater regulations and will hold a public hearing on these changes in the ensuing months. This meeting is an information presentation of the topic.
The Select Board will be joining the CIP committee to work on the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)
Thursday, September 8, 2016
4:30 PM at Water and Sewer District (Off of the Lower Mill Parking Lot)
The Select Board is meeting with the Water District Commissioners in order to review the rights and responsibilities associated with WDC work that is done on the town’s public roads.
and
6:30 PM at Town Hall
The Select Board is hearing budget proposals from Department Heads for the 2017 fiscal year.