Greenville board signs trash removal contracts, sets CDBG hearing dates

Staff Report

    GREENVILLE — The Greenville Board of Selectmen signed the long-delayed solid waste disposal and recycling contracts with Moosehead Rubbish at last week’s meeting, which will be in effect until June 30, 2017.
    The recycling center agreement stipulates that Moosehead Rubbish owner Sean Bolen will “own and maintain the facility at his own expense and effort and keep hours of operation which are the same as the Greenville transfer station.”

    In addition to roadside trash collection each Monday, Moosehead Rubbish also agreed to “maintain all town-supplied trash containers in downtown Greenville seasonally as agreed to by the contractor and the town manager, but generally running between Memorial Day and Columbus Day each calendar year.”     
    The recycling center contract is $15,000 per year while the curbside collection contract is $47,600 per year.
    Bolen will also take care of shipping municipal solid waste and construction-demolition debris to Penobscot Energy Recovery Center in Orrington or Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town on a cost per-trip basis.
    The board also scheduled public hearings and a special town meeting for CDBG micro-enterprise grant applications for Katahdin Cookie Works and Leisure Life Resort for Wednesday, March 4.
    The first hearing gets under way at 5:45 p.m. and the special town meeting will start at 6:15 p.m. prior to the regularly-scheduled selectmen’s meeting.
    Katahdin Cookie Works is applying for a $42,000 grant while Leisure Life is seeking $50,000.
    A cost-sharing proposal for the rental of the building housing the emergency radio repeater on Moose Mountain was temporarily put on hold due to problems with the system. (See separate story) The building is owned and maintained by the Maine Office of Information Technology (OIT). 
    Selectmen also authorized Town Manager John Simko to sell the now-unused dust collection system in the Greenville business incubator to Paul Lancisi, owner of Designed Living and Dovetail Bats in Shirley, “under terms and conditions the town manager finds are in the best interest of the town.”
    Lancisi had previously offered $500 for the equipment.  
    The board also set Tuesday, June 9 as the date for the municipal elections, one week after the annual town meeting.
    At the start of the meeting, Public Works Foreman Mark Bernier apologized to the board for accidentally making contact with the tip of his plow with the window at the Moosin’ Around Maine gift shop.
    Selectman Geno Murray commented that while his apology is appreciated, it is not necessary as this was an accident.
    Simko noted that Bernier “responded very swiftly and responsibly in notifying the owner of the accident, shoring up the broken window pane to prevent further heat loss, and working with the insurance company and the owner to resolve the matter.”
    The next board of selectmen’s meeting is set for Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m.