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Select Board tables Mixers’ dance permit after state fire‑marshal flags deficiencies
Summary
The Sabattus Select Board tabled a special‑amusement permit for Mixers after the town code officer reported an outstanding statement of deficiencies from the State Fire Marshal and incomplete documentation; the board asked the owner and fire marshal for written updates before the next meeting.
The Sabattus Select Board on Thursday moved to table a special‑amusement permit for Mixers, a longtime dance venue on Main Street, after the town’s code officer reported outstanding state fire‑safety deficiencies and incomplete plan‑of‑correction paperwork.
At a public hearing, the code officer told the board the State Fire Marshal had issued a statement of deficiency and that the plan of correction submitted to the Marshal’s office lacked signed contracts and completion dates. The officer said a reminder letter had been sent Oct. 1 and the town had not yet received adequate documentation.
Jenny, the Mixers tenant and permit applicant, told the board that ‘‘all the electrical portions and any other fire‑exit portions that they hit, we did do all the upgrades’’ but that sprinkler‑room ceiling work and certain fire‑barrier construction remain subject to the building owner. ‘‘We have gone through and corrected everything that I could do with the exception of construction,’’ she said, asking the board for time while the owner and the fire marshal resolve the outstanding items.
Board members voiced liability concerns about approving the permit while deficiencies persist and asked for the building owner and the fire marshal to provide written updates and supporting emails. One member said copies of the correspondence ‘‘would be very helpful’’ for the board to review before deciding whether to grant or deny the permit.
With the building owner absent, the board made and seconded a motion to table the permit and requested that the tenant bring the emails from the fire marshal to the town office and that staff contact the owner. The board set the next procedural milestone at the upcoming meeting in mid‑November and asked staff to notify them if the State Fire Marshal took any enforcement action.
The board’s action was procedural; no vote tally was recorded in the public record other than that the motion carried.
The Select Board also directed staff to attempt to summon the building owner to the next meeting so members could hear the owner’s plan for structural work and timeline for correcting sprinkler‑room and firewall deficiencies.
