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Buckfield Select Board votes to remove unsafe transfer-station swap-shop structure, leaves future to solid-waste committee
Summary
Buckfield—s Select Board voted Sept. 22 to remove an empty swap-shop structure at the town transfer station, citing health, safety and liability concerns and directing the solid waste committee to recommend a path forward.
Buckfield—s Select Board voted Sept. 22 to remove an empty swap-shop structure at the town transfer station, citing health, safety and liability concerns and directing the solid waste committee to recommend a path forward.
The decision followed more than an hour of discussion in which board members, the town manager and other participants described the building as structurally unsound, prone to rodent infestation, not ADA compliant and reportedly contaminated with mold. The board—s speaker who closed the swap shop in that structure said she had done so out of concern for public safety and accepted responsibility for that decision.
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