Sergeant Corporation asks Oldtown to approve boundary agreement allowing mining to the property line; council agrees to draft agreement

Ryan Bragg, representing Sergeant Corporation, asked the administrative services committee on Nov. 17 to authorize a boundary‑line agreement so both adjacent gravel pits could mine to the shared property line rather than leaving a 50‑foot unmined buffer required by state rules. “We’re proposing a boundary line agreement between the two properties that we can mine up to the property line,” Bragg said, adding the company would delineate and mark the corners so neither side inadvertently crossed the line.

Committee members probed environmental and operational concerns including wetlands, required buffers from roadways, reclamation slopes, erosion control and whether the city planned to use the material. Staff said the city may benefit logistically and potentially commercially from shared extraction but noted wetlands and state permitting could limit any expanded activity.

Staff and the committee agreed the next step is to have the city attorney draft an agreement for legal review; the committee voted to instruct staff to prepare draft verbiage and send it to the city attorney and the Department of Environmental Protection (the transcript refers to that office as 'D') for review. No final boundary line was recorded that night; the action authorized only drafting and review.

Bragg and staff said any future larger‑scale mining that expands beyond five acres would trigger a formal notice of intent to the state and additional public notice and review.

The committee’s approval to draft the agreement moves the proposal from concept toward formalization; staff said they would circulate draft language to the council and legal counsel before scheduling a future council vote.