“I’m going to hold firm that we should not be paying for them,” Town Manager Maryanne Crawford told the Town Council at its April 13 meeting. First Warden André Boudreau had asked Crawford if she had an update on the situation with the R.I. State.
Last week, the Town Council finalized the 2023 budget for presentation at the Financial Town Meeting on May 2. Town Manager Maryanne Crawford summarized the changes, explaining that an additional $25,000 would be going to the Block Island Volunteer.
New Shoreham is looking into the possibility of creating a new tax structure, based on classifications of different land use types. The goal of creating this tax structure, per the accompanying documents on the town’s website, is to “Modernize New.
Joe Murphy of National Grid appeared before the Town Council last week and told the group his company was planning to begin operations to splice the sea2shore cable on April 5. The two-way cable connects the island to the mainland and carries.
The Town Council voted on March 7 to approve four resolutions to put forward to the state legislature during this year’s session. Two were resolutions in opposition to statewide bills before the legislature, and two were to make changes to Block.