WILTON — To mark the completion of the Wilton Tannery project, a ribbon cutting will take place at noon on Wednesday, May 20, Town Manager Rhonda Irish told the Board of Selectpersons Tuesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency likes to have a ribbon cutting when they finish a project, she said.
Representatives from EPA and Ransom Environmental Consultants will walk over the project to see how it held up over the winter, she said.
Tours of the grounds are also available for anyone who wants to see it.
The Department of Environmental Protection, EPA, Ransom Environmental Consultants and E.L. Vining & Son who were all involved in the work have been invited.
The town did receive one proposal request from James Black of Black Acres Firewood and John Black of Rocky Hill Landscaping, she said.
After an executive session the board voted to approve the proposal from the local brothers and businessmen for re-development of the property in to a business park.
The town took possession of the 15-acre property in 2010 because of unpaid taxes amounting to $74,600.
Wilton received a $200,000 federal EPA grant in 2012 and a total of $187,000 from the Maine DEP and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development to clean up the site for future economic development.
In other business, the board voted to not renew a liquor license for Wilton Golf Holdings LLC, doing business as Wilson Lake Country Club.
The reason is because they haven’t paid their personal property taxes, Selectperson Thomas Saviello said quoting Maine Statue 28a.
The golf course doesn’t pay and leaves the rest of the town to carry the burden, he said.
Property taxes are paid just prior to foreclosure and personal property taxes have not been paid at all, Chairman Scott Taylor, said.
If the taxes are paid, we may reconsider, Saviello said. If you don’t want to pay taxes then we’re not interested in helping you, he said about denying the liquor license.
As for naming street lights to shut off, board members agreed they felt they were “beating a dead horse.”
Townspeople, at last year’s town meeting, wanted the board to name 10 more lights to darken to reduce costs.
Selectperson Tiffany Maiuri said she took a night ride but could not find two lights that she felt were extraneous lighting.
Maiuri felt it would be detrimental to public safety to make any more light changes, she said.
Selectperson Paul Berkey agreed saying he rode around town twice and most lights left are at intersections.
Joey Kinsey, candidate for a Selectman seat, voiced his agreement saying “if you’re beating a dead horse, let it lie unless someone can come up with something.”
The board is willing to hear suggestions from townspeople.
Saviello announced a Memorial Day service will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, at the memorial on the lawn of the Lion’s Club building on Main Street.
It will be short service but one to recognize the day, he said.
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