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Pownal Select Board approves $665,947.21 accounts payable, adopts general assistance maximums and OKs RFPs and appointments
Summary
At its Sept. 22 meeting the Town of Pownal Select Board approved FY26 warrants and payroll, adopted the 2025–2026 General Assistance ordinance and maximums, approved RFPs for a sand/salt shed assessment and a Future Facilities engineering study, and confirmed two appointments.
Chair Jon Morris presided over the Town of Pownal Select Board’s Sept. 22, 2025 meeting, where the board approved an FY26 accounts payable warrant for $665,947.21 and Payroll Journal #113 for $9,483.43 and adopted the town’s 2025–2026 General Assistance ordinance and maximums.
The votes were unanimous among the members present. Selectperson Kate Day moved each of the routine financial items and motions; Chair Jon Morris seconded. The board approved the AP Warrant #9 and the payroll journal by voice votes recorded as Yes 2; No 0. After a brief public hearing in which Town Administrator Becky Taylor-Chase summarized the General Assistance maximums, the board adopted the updated ordinance and maximums on a 2–0 vote.
Why it matters: adopting the General Assistance maximums sets the town’s eligibility thresholds and payment limits for temporary aid under local administration of state-mandated assistance programs. The approved warrants authorize payments and operating payroll for the town for the current fiscal period.
Beyond the financial votes, the Select Board approved two requests-for-proposal. The board approved an RFP to solicit cost proposals for an assessment and remediation of items identified in the AE Hodsdon report for the sand/salt shed; the RFP includes photos and the three remediation bullets from the report and will be posted on the town website and the Maine Municipal Association site. The board also approved a Future Facilities Committee RFP for civil engineering and landscape design services tied to projects the town authorized at the June town meeting and set Dec. 22, 2025 as the proposed date to consider awarding that bid. Resident Andy O’Brien told the board the engineering study will help make projects “shovel ready” when seeking grants.
The board approved a tax abatement request for Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hodgdon (857 Lawrence Road, map 3, lot 43) in the amount of $146.88 after Assessor Donna Hays submitted a recommendation; the motion passed 2–0. The meeting also included two personnel-related appointments: the board appointed Deborah Delp to the Budget Committee for a term running Sept. 22, 2025 through June 30, 2026, and appointed Road Commissioner Dan (Daniel) Libby as a voting member of the Future Facilities Committee for the committee’s term (the board intends committee appointments to align with the June 30, 2026 committee term end).
On procedural matters, Chair Morris moved the board into executive session under 1 M.R.S.A. §406(6)(A) for personnel issues at 7:07 p.m.; the board exited that executive session at 7:34 p.m. The meeting adjourned at 7:39 p.m.
What’s next: the approved RFPs will be posted and the Future Facilities RFP is scheduled to be considered for award Dec. 22, 2025; the board flagged that several agenda items (including some capital-property questions) will return for further public discussion at future meetings.
