PITTSFIELD — The City Council this week set a public listening to for a $1 million mortgage for sewer work as a part of the city’s upcoming Foremost Avenue infrastructure mission.
The city ordinance would permit for a mortgage as much as $1,069,000 from the Clear Water State Revolving Mortgage Fund for the mission. Nevertheless, the city has already gotten a $500,000 grant for the work, so the mortgage will probably not be for the complete $1 million.
The sewer work will concentrate on a number of areas close to Foremost Avenue, together with downtown close to the intersection of Foremost Avenue and Somerset Avenue, City Supervisor Kathryn Ruth mentioned at Tuesday’s council assembly.
The Foremost Avenue mission is being performed along side the Maine Division of Transportation. The newest schedule from the division signifies that building for the mission will start within the spring of 2023 on the earliest, Ruth mentioned.
“In all probability essentially the most difficult mission that we’re ever going to do is the Foremost Avenue mission — it’s bought so many shifting elements, nevertheless it’s all coming collectively,” Ruth mentioned.
The council set a public listening to for the mortgage for its subsequent assembly on March 1.
In different enterprise, councilors heard from Hearth Chief Bernard Williams that he has acquired new steering indicating the city can use American Rescue Plan Act funding to pay for self-contained respiration apparatuses for the hearth division.
The city had beforehand appeared into utilizing the cash for the respiration gear however was instructed the gear couldn’t be bought with the ARPA cash. As a substitute the council deliberate to make use of a mortgage to pay for the brand new gear. The $180,000 price was meant to be a part of a $1.25 million mortgage that might even be used to pay for paving and bridge and culvert work on the town.
Bickford mentioned he was annoyed to listen to that the ARPA cash couldn’t cowl the fee, and determined to proceed to pursue the problem with state and federal officers. And it paid off, as he mentioned he had gotten new steering this week that meant the funding will pay for the gear.
“So basically that $180,000 that we had put aside earlier than for the (respiration gear), we don’t have to go to the bond financial institution for now,” Mayor Michael Cianchette mentioned.
Councilors agreed that given the brand new steering they want to revisit what the ARPA funding can be utilized for.
The council additionally accredited the switch of a small patch of land again to the Pittsfield Woolen Yarn Co. that’s positioned in the course of property the corporate owns at 164 Middle St. The parcel is simply over 1,000 sq. ft and is surrounded by property owned by Pittsfield Woolen Yarn.
The city got here to personal the parcel in a land swap in 1997, when the city deeded one other part of land to the corporate.
The difficulty got here up as a result of Cianbro is shopping for the property from Pittsfield Woolen Yarn and needs to have the 1,000 sq. ft included within the buy.
Councilors had no objections to the switch and accredited it unanimously.
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