Does a board member taking part remotely pay as much attention as those meeting in person? Some fellow Alna residents raised the issue April 20 as selectmen loosened a policy that sprang from the pandemic. The changes conform with revised state law.
From sewer needs, would-be waterfront and Whites Island projects, the ash ponds cleanup, Wawenock block repairs and Optimus Senior Housing, to the first James Weldon Johnson Day, Wiscasset rallying for a teacher’s child who had a stroke, the airport.
Alna special town meeting voters at the fire station Dec. 15 approved funding for the new one-year plowing pact, First Selectman Ed Pentaleri said. No one voted against it, and voter check-in took longer than the vote, Pentaleri said. Selectmen.
The vote is on in Alna for the rest of the funds to cover a one-year, $325,000 plow deal after a Woolwich firm’s pullout last month. Selectmen Nov. 30 agreed on the warrant for a special town meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15 at the fire station.
Alna’s first selectman and a fellow resident argued Nov. 22 over the resident’s sending of an email the night before. At one point, the resident, Jeff Spinney, said to “shut the hell up”; moments later, another meeting goer called for Spinney to.