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Ossipee selectmen approve FairPoint abatement, warrants and authorize standard filings
Summary
At a regular meeting, the Ossipee selectmen approved a tax-abatement request from FairPoint Communications, several warrants and required filings and authorized routine fiscal items and minutes by voice vote.
Ossipee Selectmen approved a series of routine fiscal and administrative items at a regular meeting, including a tax-abatement request from FairPoint Communications and required annual filings.
The selectmen voted to approve a refund abatement request from FairPoint Communications for Map 700 Lot 001, approve meeting minutes from the Aug. 25 selectmen meeting, accept a water/sewer warrant, approve two yield tax levy items and file the annual MS-1 summary inventory form required by the DRA. Each item was approved by voice vote.
Why it matters: These approvals finalize routine financial and reporting obligations the town must complete annually and clear discrete tax and warrant items from the meeting agenda.
Key actions recorded at the meeting included: - Tax abatement: Motion to approve a requested refund abatement for FairPoint Communications (Map 700 Lot 001). The transcript records the requested abatement amount as $3,009.44 plus interest. The motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. - Minutes: The board approved the Selectmen meeting minutes from Monday, Aug. 25, by voice vote. - Water/sewer warrant: The board approved a water/sewer warrant; the transcript gives an unclear dollar amount and does not provide a precise figure in the record. - Yield tax levies: Two yield tax levy items (listed in the transcript as “Matt 135 Lot 1” and “Matt 135 Lot 2”) were presented and approved; dollar amounts in the transcript are not clearly stated. - MS-1 filing: The board approved the MS-1 summary inventory and evaluation form noted in the transcript as a DRA-required annual form.
All approvals were made by motion, second and voice vote with the board responding “Aye.” The transcript records no roll-call vote tallies or recorded dissent.
The meeting also included informational items presented elsewhere on the agenda, including a planning-board notice about a shoreland impervious-coverage approval and a public acknowledgement of Dana Jones for replacing the snowmobile logo on welcome signs; those items were presented as informational and not acted on by formal recorded vote in the transcript.
