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Eliot Select Board accepts Town Manager report; park upgrades, election timeline, warrants and clerks approved
Summary
The board accepted the Town Manager's report noting Murray-Rowe Park upgrades including six new pickleball courts, confirmed election paperwork timing, approved election-clerk nominations as a consent calendar, approved warrants totaling both payroll and large accounts payable items, and moved into an executive session to consult counsel.
The Eliot Select Board on April 27 accepted the Town Manager's report and approved a set of routine administrative items, including election-clerk nominations and warrants.
The Town Manager said ballots for the June 9, 2026 election will be ready by May 12 and reminded the board that the School Committee is scheduled to vote on its budget on May 11; while that vote could affect the ballot, the Town Manager said no substantial changes were anticipated. The Town Manager also reported progress at Murray-Rowe Park: installation of new fencing, base coats and polymer surfacing, accessible playscapes, basketball courts and the addition of dedicated pickleball courts, bringing the town's total pickleball courts from zero to six and enabling tournament play; parking now includes accessible spaces. The Town Manager thanked Eliot taxpayers and Pine Tree Tennis for project management.
By motion the board accepted the Town Manager's report and directed it be posted online. The board then approved three items presented by the Town Clerk as a consent calendar: acceptance of Election Clerks for 2026-2028 (Town Clerk nominations, Democratic Party nominations and Republican Party nominations). All votes were unanimous.
The board also approved payroll warrants #89 ($79,631.14) and #91 ($103,710.53) and accounts payable warrants #88 ($142,534.24), #90 ($52,698.78) and #92 ($1,270,985.18). The vote to approve warrants passed unanimously.
Finally, the board voted to enter Executive Session under the provision of MRS 405 to consult legal counsel and to adjourn from that Executive Session without returning to public session that evening. The motion passed unanimously.
The meeting minutes list Ann Lukegord as Recording Secretary and show the meeting adjourned to executive session; no executive-session details were disclosed in the public minutes.
