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Residents and Selectboard debate completing paving program vs. creating paving CRF
Summary
Selectboard presented two paving options: finish the ten‑year paving program (including Slip Road and Zephyr Lake Road) or create a Paving & Infrastructure Capital Reserve Fund to enable longer‑section paving. Residents urged a CRF for planning, sidewalks and price advantages; the board will present both articles, with the CRF funded from fund balance.
The Selectboard presented two Article 12 options for paving: one option to complete the town’s ten‑year paving program (including Slip Road and Zephyr Lake Road) and an alternative to establish a Paving & Infrastructure Capital Reserve Fund (CRF) to aggregate funds and pursue longer, single‑pass paving projects to secure better pricing.
Residents at the hearing urged the CRF approach. Ginny Plourde said she favored a CRF for longer-term planning and to save for sidewalks; Jim Plourde (a former DPW director in Antrim) provided best-practice recommendations for paving; Sheldon Pennoyer and Bob Marshall voiced support for saving through CRFs, and Karen Day suggested using fund balance to seed the CRF while using tax appropriations to complete the paving program. After discussion the Chair said the Board would present both warrant articles and fund the CRF via fund balance if voters approve it.
The debate centered on timing and cost-efficiency: doing longer contiguous sections of road at once can reduce unit cost but requires sufficient savings; a CRF allows the town to accumulate funds for larger projects rather than breaking long roads into short segments across years.
