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Stormy meeting
It was a dark and stormy night, but even the wind nearly raising the roof off town hall could not distract six debating attorneys and some well informed i and those not so well informed i town citizens at last Wednesday's Town Council meeting.
To the bitter end of a tiring fourand-a-half hour meeting, every hist grammatical tic and nuance that not even poets could trick from the English language was pored over and debated, but in the end. the town's sewer ordinance looked to be nearly complete.
The issue was not whether to pay or not to pay the $7,500 per residence/EDU hook-up fee, but w hether to let some people “off the hook,' so to speak, for special circumstances. But those “special circumstances” got bogged down in a section of the ordinance that really didn’t make clear w'hat those special circumstances might be from the perspective of most in attendance at the meeting.
The section itself talks only about "separate use1” for existing buildings on single properties, but there was no definition as to what that might be. and no clear idea of exactly how many "existing users” this might apply to.
Council member dean Goodine - herself a potential special circumstances candidate - offered to compile a survey of precisely how many this might affect.
How did the council back into this one?
Once it became clear a few meetings back the council wasn't going to back off requiring people to pay, the issue shifted to one of fairness, and the sticking point became the “Special Use” paragraph and just w ho and how would these be determined.
See SEWER, Page A6
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