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Commission debates Placid Lakes grant exclusion as staff outlines sewer plant progress and utility priorities
Summary
Commissioners and the public discussed whether Placid Lakes utilities should be excluded from a town grant list; staff reported on wastewater infrastructure projects, grants for septic-to-sewer connections and equipment upgrades, and scheduled a roundtable to clarify boundaries, service areas and legal questions.
Pam Brewer moved to remove Placid Lakes utilities from the town's grant list and to keep the private system outside the town's service-area funding, prompting debate and a request for legal clarification; staff provided project updates including a new wastewater treatment plant under construction, lift-station startups and grant applications for septic-to-sewer connections.
"I move that Placid Lake utilities be removed from the grant and not considered to go outside your service area," Pam Brewer said during the meeting, initiating discussion about conflicts of interest and the intent of a prior vote. Town staff and several commissioners said the record reflected a misunderstanding about whether the prior motion was to strike Placid Lakes entirely or simply to lower its…
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