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Penobscot County appoints Barbara Veo to TIF committee, schedules workshop and authorizes feasibility study for salt-shed site work
Summary
The commission appointed former UT director Barbara Veo to the Tax Increment Financing committee, agreed to a workshop with the committee April 1, and authorized a feasibility study with Plymouth Engineering to explore siting a new salt/sand shed using reserve funds left by the town of Drew.
The Penobscot County Commission voted March 11 to appoint Barbara Veo to the county’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) committee, then agreed to schedule a short workshop with the committee on Tuesday, April 1 following the county meeting.
Commissioners and TIF members said Veo has long experience with UT (unorganized territory) operations, helped set up the county’s TIF program years earlier, and expressed that her background will help the committee move forward. The motion to appoint Veo passed unanimously.
During the unorganized territory report, staff also asked permission to pursue site engineering for additional salt/sand storage to support recent deorganization activity that added roughly nine miles of municipal roads to county maintenance. County staff said Kingman, Prentice, Drew and McGawhawk sand inventories are currently stored in the Prentice shed; that shed has drainage and space constraints and cannot be simply expanded to add another bay because doors are open on both ends.
The commission approved a motion to authorize county staff to work with Plymouth Engineering to conduct a feasibility study and site work analysis to assess whether an existing design for prior sheds could be adapted to a site in Kingman and to confirm LUPC (Land Use Planning Commission) compliance, well setbacks and acreage availability. Commissioners said the work would be a feasibility study only and that any construction would return for separate approval.
Finance staff noted there are funds in reserve from the recent Drew deorganization; the county received $138,000 from Drew that is being held and could pay for the preliminary engineering. The motion to pursue engineering and site study passed unanimously.
