Board of Selectmen

Minutes of the Special Meeting of May 22, 2007

Present: Gordon M. Ridgway, K.C Baird and Richard Bramley. The meeting convened at 7:35 pm.

The minutes of the May 7 meeting were approved as presented.

Communications: The Village Improvement Society has proposed three signs to be placed at the entering roads to Cornwall Village asking drivers to drive slowly. Mock-ups will be requested from Zeke Herman.

In response to a request from Town Clerk Vera Dinneen, K.C. Baird moved and Richard Bramley seconded motion to amend a vote at the April 2 meeting as follows:

Resolved that Gordon M. Ridgway, First Selectman is empowered to execute and deliver in the name and on behalf of this municipality a contract with the Connecticut State Library for a Historic Documents Preservation Grant.

The VOTE to approve was unanimous

FEMA Grants: The Board discussed the May 11 declaration of a disaster emergency in Litchfield County by President Bush. For this April 15 storm, FEMA will not only pay for emergency work done during the storm but will also fund mitigation work for problem areas in the town. A case officer will visit Cornwall and approve the scope of work at each of several sites. The Board agreed that Ridgway and Road Foreman Rick Stone would work on an inventory.

Highways: Rick Stone plans to borrow a sweeper for immediate work pending purchase of a used machine. Stone will work on cleaning up the road to the town beach and grading the unimproved roads. He will also dig the trench at Foote fields for the electricity and plumbing to the new pavilion.

The Board noted in passing that Ralph Dzenutis had completed work on the Cornwall Bridge Firehouse roof for less than $20,000; the original bid was $50,000.

Foote Field: In addition to the water and power, Ridgway said a small equipment shed will be set up behind home plate. He reported that there had been complaints of second-hand smoke drifting from the visitors’ bleachers down the hill to the Cornwall bench. There was a discussion of wording of a possible sign controlling smoking. The Board voted to go into executive session at 8:05 pm. and resumed the regular session at 8:47.

Ridgway moved and Bramley seconded a motion:

To commence an exchange of property identified as approximately one-tenth of an acre on the MacLean map for a quit claim of access to now formerly MacLean property via the Town Green. The VOTE to approve was unanimous.

The bills were approved as usual.

Lisa Lansing

Clerk pro tem