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Castle Hill Select Board denies poverty abatement for account 2267, holds two executive sessions including Sugar Ridge ROW talks
Summary
After two executive sessions—one about right-of-way negotiations in the Sugar Ridge Subdivision and one to consider a poverty abatement—the board denied the abatement for account 2267 and established a payment arrangement; both executive sessions were recorded in the minutes with times and statutory citations.
The Castle Hill Select Board held two executive sessions during its May 14 meeting and later recorded a formal denial of a poverty-abatement application.
Pursuant to state law, the board moved into executive session to discuss negotiating right-of-way access on the Sugar Ridge Subdivision. The motion to enter executive session was made by Maylen Kenney, seconded by Herman Condon, and the session began at 7:50 PM; the board returned to open session at 8:05 PM with no public action recorded on the ROW issue in the minutes.
Immediately afterward, under 36 M.R.S.A. §841, the board entered a second executive session to consider a poverty-abatement application. That session ran from 8:05 PM to 8:12 PM. After returning to open session, the board voted to deny the abatement for account 2267 and to enter a payment arrangement. The motion to deny the abatement and set a payment plan was moved by Herman Condon, seconded by Maylen Kenney, and passed 3-0.
The minutes record the legal citations used for the executive sessions. (The meeting minutes list the ROW statute citation as “1 M.R.S.A. §4405(6.D)”; the correct citation for closed-session authority is 1 M.R.S.A. §405(6)(D).) The town did not publicize further details of the ROW negotiations or the poverty-abatement applicant in the minutes.
