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The vacancy on the Randolph selectboard, created by the resignation of Dawn Butterfield two weeks ago, has attracted considerable interest. Two people have already sent formal letters requesting they be considered, and two others have verbally expressed interest, Selectboard Chair Jim Hutchinson said at Tuesday night’s meeting. The board will continue to advertise the position, and after another week or so will schedule interviews with the candidates. Butterfield resigned reluctantly because she believed that the board would face criticism because she is the wife of the newly-appointed town manager, Peter Butterfield. The selectboard will appoint a replacement, to serve until the next town meeting. At that point an election will fill the position for the remainder of the term. Other Business The board made a couple of other appointments Tuesday evening, reappointing Kevin O’Donoghue to the Emergency Management Planning Committee and appointing Charles Russell to the Planning Commission, replacing Chris Sargent, who resigned for health reasons. The board will send a letter to Sargent, praising his service, especially in development work in East Randolph. Gay Gaston made a successful pitch on behalf of the Garden Club for $442 of town money to assist with the club’s flower basket project. The program has for the last couple of years greatly enlivened the downtown with hanging baskets of flowers on light poles up and down the street. Gaston said the club is expanding the number of baskets this year It actually will cost over $5000, but the Garden Club is receiving help from several organizations, most notably the Rotary Club, so that the request to the town was minimal. Previous Meeting At its last March meeting, the selectboard came to an important agreement with ClearSource, Inc. with regard to the amount of water it discharges into the town’s sewer line. The sewer line runs down from Randolph Center past the plant and the capacity of the pump station at the bottom of the hill is severely limited. The plant had originally been granted an allocation of just 3800 gallons per day, but over the years, as business increased, its actual discharge had grown. Last year, discharge was up to 21,000 gallons. A couple of months ago, this discovery by Selectman Stephen Springer and Public Works Supt. Joe Voci led them to ask ClearSource to purchase a higher allocation at a cost of $90,000. A series of meeting with CEO James Morgan led to a negotiated settlement that was approved in March. ClearSource believes that by changes in the plant it can limit its discharges to about 13,000 gallons a day. As a result, the company will buy an allocation for 10,000 gallons at a cost of $50,000, to be paid over five months, with interest. If at any time the plant’s outflow goes over 13,310 gallons per day, the company must buy allocation up to 21,692 gallons. Selectman Springer and Pat French, who serves on the Water and Sewer Committee, praised ClearSource as being "very cooperative" and Morgan as being "very accessible" during negotiations. Town Forests Also in March, the selectboard agreed to disperse $3105 of the Conservation Fund for small projects in each of the three town forests. Selectman Springer made the request on behalf of the Conservation Commission, which he chairs. The money will pay for such things as picnic tables, boundary markers and signs at each of the three forests. One town forest is along the White River in the village, another is on Tatro Hill Road, and another, called the Rabbit Track parcel, is in the eastern part of town. Money in the Conservation Fund comes from $5000 appropriations every year and from receipts from occasional timber sales. |
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