Selectmen approve routine outside-agency funding, institutional exemptions and several warrants
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Summary
In a routine session, Ossipee selectmen approved level-funded grants to outside agencies, accepted minutes, approved water/sewer warrants and institutional tax-exemptions, and authorized the town administrator to sign a regional letter about Route 16.
Ossipee selectmen approved a slate of routine budget and administrative items during the meeting, including level-funded or requested grants to several outside agencies, institutional tax-exempt property exemptions, and multiple warrants.
Speaker 2 read requests and moved to approve funding for outside agencies: Ossipee Concerned Citizens $35,000; OCC Daycare $7,000; Granite VNA & Hospice $7,000; Northern Human Services (transcript indicates $44.25 but context implies $44,250); Tri-County CAP $9,837; Life Ministry Food Pantry $8,000; White Mountain Community Health $7,400; Ossipee Children's Fund $22,000; Starting Point roughly $10,004.85; Hospitality Historical Society $4,000; Kingswood Youth Center $5,000; Caregivers of Southern Carroll County $2,500; Freedom Food Pantry $8,000; N 68 Hours of Hunger $10,000; Green Mountain Conservation Group $2,500; and Provisions Food Pantry $10,000 (first-time request). Each motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
The board accepted prior selectmen minutes and approved an "intent to cut" wood/timber application for several lots (map 73 lots 100' 104) as moved from the floor. The board also approved water/sewer warrants: a warrant for $11,847.66 and a monthly water/sewer bill for $21,472.15. Speaker 2 read a list of institutional exemptions (churches, Huggins Hospital, Provisions Food Pantry and others) and moved to approve them after confirming a previously unlabeled address (2215 Route 16) was the Crossroads Advent Church/parsonage.
The board also voted to authorize Town Administrator Matt Sawyer to sign a multi-town letter from the Lakes Region Planning Commission supporting a 10-year plan for Route 16 safety improvements and to transmit it to state officials.
Next steps: the line items will be reviewed further by the budget committee in upcoming presentations; representatives from many agencies are expected at the budget committee sessions to answer questions.