Old Lyme’s Annual Town Meeting to be Held Tonight, Citizen of the Year to be Announced

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Updated 1/17: Old Lyme’s Annual Town Business Meeting will be held Monday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School at 18 Lyme St.  The agenda was posted on the Town’s website last Friday.

The first item on the agenda is discussion and acceptance of the Annual Town Report for the fiscal year July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015, as submitted by the Board of Finance.

Subsequent items are as follows:

  1. To accept Blackwell Lane Extension as a Town road, as recommended by the Old Lyme Planning Commission and the Board of Selectmen.
  2. To adopt a Resolution endorsing the Inter-Town Capital Equipment (ICE) Purchase Incentive Program referenced in Section 4-66m of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended by Public Act 15-170, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen, for the creation of a multi-site UHF simulcast system for the Towns of Chester, Deep River, Essex, Durham, Haddam, Killingworth, Lyme, Middlefield, Old Lyme and Westbrook in order to provide enhanced communications for rural volunteer firefighters and medical technicians in the above named towns, and to authorize the First Selectwoman to sign all necessary documents with the State Office of Policy and Management under the ICE grant program.
  3. To approve the use of the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy  program (C-PACE) established by the State Legislature (Section 16a-40g of the Connecticut General Statutes), as recommended by the Board of Selectmen, in order to facilitate financing for clean energy improvements to commercial properties within the Town, and to authorize the First Selectwoman to execute and deliver the C-PACE Agreement together with such other documents necessary and appropriate to evidence, secure and otherwise complete the C-PACE Agreement.
  4. To accept the gift from George M. Yeager, of New York, NY of a 36” x 40” oil painting on canvas entitled “Family Gathering For Tea” by Wilson Henry Irvine (1869-1936).

Finally, the board of selectmen will announce the currently closely guarded secret of their choice for Citizen of the Year for 2015.

Following the adjournment of the town meeting, the Boathouse Hains Park Improvement Committee will make a presentation.  More information to follow on the contents of this presentation here on LymeLine.com later this week.

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