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Next Monday’s selectboard meeting will provide further discussion for important topics that officials have been studying this summer. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Randolph Technical Career Center. That’s an hour earlier than usual. Discussion will include public and board comment on the new proposal to buy the former Randolph Cooperative Market space on Pleasant Street for town offices. The board has to decide whether to prepare a bid for a foreclosure sale being held by the Randolph National Bank. Bids must be received by Aug. 17. Purchasing the 7000-square-foot first floor of the former Merrimaids industrial building would be a marked change from the direction the board has pursued over the last five-plus years to enlarge the current municipal building on Summer Street. Some on the selectboard believe that the town can end up with more useable space for less money than it will get by enlarging the current building. Public comment is set as the first thing on the 6 p.m. agenda. Clover Hill Road The board will also discuss, again, a request from the Green Mt. Stock Farm that the top part of Clover Hill Road be changed from Class 4 to Class 3. That would make the road an all-season approach to new subdivision roads that will service new homes on the Stock Farm property. Two questions are foremost in dealing with this request. First, what would be the cost for upgrading the road, which is on a level stretch of farmland? Second, what would become of the snowmobile trail that currently utilizes Clover Hill Road? As a Class 4 road, it is automatically open to snowmobiles and provides an important link, sportsmen say. As a Class 3 road, it would normally be closed to snowmobilers. Stock Farm owner Jesse Sammis has said he would sit down with snowmobilers and help find a new route through the property. Dog Ordinance Monday’s meeting will take up a revised dog ordinance presented three weeks ago by Town Manager Peter Butterfield. The proposed changes, he said, would increase fines for violations and would add a "pooper-scooper" law and a section on animal cruelty. The board will also review progress on two on-going projects, paving and recreation. Thanks to a winter that was warmer than usual, the budget has money left over for paving village streets, Butterfield noted. Within the last week work has been done on Brigham Circle, Belle-Fred Drive, and Prospect, Pleasant, and Grove Streets. Recreation Projects The tennis court fence has been taken down in preparation for a total reconstruction of the courts, a new sub-base and asphalt top will be applied to the skating rink; and the skateboard park is now back in service. Butterfield noted that a gathering of skateboarders and friends to paint the ramps was a big success, with about 30 people showing up, aged eight to teenaged. Selectman Damon Lease and Recreation Committee member Andrea Easton supervised the painting, and Alex Easton supplied the music. |
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