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Residents press Ossipee select board on recycling, Deer Cove right‑of‑way, police body cameras and lake signage
Summary
Public commenters urged the board to resume recycling of plastics and paper, presented evidence of a 16.5‑foot right‑of‑way at Deer Cove Road, urged funding for police body cameras (already on the warrant), and requested conservation‑commission action to place signage recognizing a $2 million Eisner family land donation.
Residents used the select board meeting’s public‑input periods to raise multiple neighborhood and conservation concerns.
Bradley Marion, speaking for the Conservation Commission, said he prepared a spreadsheet showing the town could save money by resuming recycling of plastics and paper and asked to set up a table at a town meeting to distribute information. "I believe that it would save the town money to recycle plastics and the paper products that they stopped recycling a couple years ago," Marion said, and asked the board to allow outreach to residents.
TJ, representing the transfer station, described the facility’s current accepted materials and operational limits: "cardboard, glass, tin cans, light iron, appliances, all your tires, your electronics ... batteries ... waste oil," and said the town processes material efficiently compared with neighboring towns. Board members noted national limitations on plastic recycling infrastructure and stressed the chain of custody as a concern.
A resident and longtime town volunteers presented deed research on Deer Cove Road, saying a recorded 16.5‑foot right‑of‑way exists and that retaining walls and seasonal decks encroach into the right‑of‑way. The speaker warned that restoring the road width would require removing walls and addressing lakeshore drainage and could prompt legal challenges from some property owners; the matter will be brought to a vote at the town meeting.
Former law‑enforcement officer Ron Alley Jr. urged support for police body cameras and said the select board had placed an appropriation for cameras on the warrant: "Every police department needs body cameras, and it can't all be about cost," he said, arguing cameras protect officers and the public and noting the rising complexity of calls involving mental health.
Representatives of Friends of Ossipee Lake asked the board to prompt the conservation commission to approve purchase of a sign crediting the Eisner family for a gift of conservation land (formerly Loon Island). The board said the commission would be asked to act at its next meeting; the speaker noted the Eisner family had donated "over $2,000,000 to this town to purchase conservation land."
