RUMFORD — Selectmen have rescheduled their July meetings, but will have one more meeting this month.
The end-of-the-fiscal-year meeting to close the books will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 30, in Rumford Falls Auditorium.
Regular selectmen meetings are held on the first and third Thursdays each month at 6:30 p.m., which is a new time this year. The meetings are held in the auditorium.
Due to attendance conflicts and the Fourth of July, the board will meet Wednesday, July 9, instead of Thursday, July 3. The second meeting will be Thursday, July 24, instead of Thursday, July 17.
At the June 30 meeting, selectmen will likely set a date for a special town meeting in July to revote the General Assistance budget that was defeated at the June 10 referendum. Setting a date was on the June 19 meeting agenda, but was inadvertently missed following discussion and approval of a new budget proposal.
Two land matters will also be on the special town meeting warrant. In one, residents will vote whether to accept a Wells Fargo offer to donate a foreclosed property and land at 125 Washington St. and $19,000 to the town.
Residents need to give selectmen the authority to dispose of the property in a way that benefits Rumford and to place the $19,000 in the town’s building demolition account.
The other matter involves a quitclaim deed that was inadvertently left off the June town meeting referendum, Town Manager John Madigan told selectmen June 19.
At the board’s Dec. 19 meeting, selectmen unanimously voted to include an article on the annual town meeting warrant asking voters whether the town should award a quitclaim deed for an unused lot on Maple Street next to Mark Davis’ property.
The problem is selectmen don’t know who the owner of Lot 21 is. Davis owns the land on Lot 22. Davis asked the town to surrender any rights to the land.
“Nobody knows who owns it,” Madigan told selectmen on June 19. “It’s not clear if the town even owns it, so how can we give him a deed?”
Should voters approve the deed, the land goes back on the tax records.
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