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BRADFORD – On July 10, Michael Sailer from Sailer Construction met with selectmen and road agent Stephen Lucier about replacing two of the town’s highway buildings.
Sailer promised to give a finalized plan within the next 10 days and said they would “take care of all site work.”
Selectman Chip Meaney asked if Sailer would include piping and electrical work. “It’s in there,” said Sailer. Town administrator Cheryl Behr warned that costs would be higher than the $310,866 bid selectmen chose on May 9, 2008. Sailer said fuel for construction vehicles is now $500 a day.
Fenton began the public hearing by reading aloud warrant articles to be voted on July 29. Article 1 asks for a total of $350,000 to replace the current highway garage, on the same land. Two different capital reserve funds could supply a total of $150,000 of that, leaving no more than $200,000 to be paid for with a bond.
Residents asked about water availability and use at the existing site.(Regarding the water quality,) Dick Keller asked, “Could it be used for drinking?” The town is “not interested in that expense,” said Fenton. He then asked if there was water available on site that would enable workers to shower after getting coated with something.Lucier said that was not put in because of cost. “I don’t see anything for washing trucks,” said resident Jane Johnson. “There is no room for that, except outside, in the middle of the buildings,” said Lucier.
Article 2 relates to the salt shed. As with Article 1, both the selectmen and the budget committee recommend the shed be built on town-owned land on Cilley Lane. The salt shed would cost not more than $100,000, all funds to come from issuing a bond.
Resident Martha Keller asked if the previous idea of moving the salt shed to Jones Road been discarded; Lucier went to a white board with cutouts of highway buildings on it. “It would be in this vicinity,” he said, pointing to a triangular corner away from the ball field.
The cutouts show a new salt shed of 40 by 60 feet and a new highway garage of 60 by 100 feet.
If both the highway garage and the salt shed were replaced at the same time, the total cost of bonds would not surpass $300,000.

WARNER – Selectmen Richard Cook, David Hartman, David Karrick and Town Administrator Laura Buono had seven appointments on July 8.
Public works director Allan Brown updated the Warner Selectmen on the work that has been done toward correcting the transfer station’s most recent list of deficiencies from DES (Department of Environmental Services).
“We have been working toward compliance, like leaky containers. They wanted stuff covered and labeled. That’s pretty much all done now. Hazardous waste is now gone,” said Brown. “Asbestos is removed,” he added later. “The only things we haven’t touched were smoke detectors and fire extinguishers. Ash from the burn pile has to be tested for heavy metals.”
“How many smoke detectors are you talking about?” asked resident Ron Wirth. “Maybe 40,” said Brown. “Everything is regulated. You can’t do what you want to,” he added. Brown noted that when DES returned about a week and a half before this selectmen’s meeting, the state had been very pleased with what public works has done at the transfer station. Hartman said DES cited Warner’s transfer station for a fuel oil storage tank. “Was that the only thing?” he asked.
“There were barrels and barrels of oil with water running into them. We had to bring in someone to test the soil under them,” said Brown. “We have to have more signs, laminated with plastic.” Construction and demolition debris is again stored under a roof. After the meeting, Brown said that C&D is back where he’d stored it years ago. In recent years, plastic was stored there.
After someone in the audience asked about sheetrock, Hartman said he’d asked the same question a year ago. Brown said, “I asked them that exact question. The state of NH does not allow it to be used. There are programs out there for clean sheetrock that has been cut off from what is used.”

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