Paving, trash removal on town agenda

LAKEVIEW PLANTATION — A special town meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, at the community building to consider paving and trash removal issues.

Plantation assessor Fred Trask said the voters will be asked to see what sum of money Lakeview Plantation will raise or appropriate for the highway account to hot top the town roads.

He said the board of assessors will recommend residents raise $5,000 from the surplus fund account for the highway account.

He said in March the voters raised a sum of money for paving, but the Plantation recently discovered it can participate in a state program that would allow the village to tar its entire road system, all 1.3 miles, this year for just $5,000. The roads that will be paved are Main Street, High Street and Mill Street, said Trask.

Voters will also be asked to raise money for the health and sanitation account for the purposes of rubbish removal.

Trask said more rubbish than was anticipated was deposited by residents and camp owners at the town’s dumpster facility and they had to pay for more trips to haul the trash away.

He said the assessors will probably be recommending an appropriation of $1,000.

All articles will be open articles, he said, with motions to come from the floor.

Trask said the assessors will have to take another look at problems the village is having with people dumping goods that have been prohibited at the town’s trash receiving station. During the weekend, he said, he assisted in removing a refrigerator and wringer washer from the dumpsters and had to haul them away. This happens, he said, even when the dumpsters have signs on them banning household appliances. Maybe, he said, the assessors will have to become specific and list each item that is considered a household appliance.