live reporting - Administrator report

Nutting -

• thanks for the website conversions

• Beaver St to be open on Thursday. There is still some paving to do possibly next week but the road is passable now.

• Question 1 is on the November ballot would remove the income tax and remove about 12 billion dollars from the State budget. This money provides about 35% of our annual budget. I hope folks think long and hard before voting on that question.

• Offer for special meeting on commercial property tax evaluation, will be scheduled

Bartlett - question on Verizon work to install FIOS
Nuttling - Verizon is going to fix, patch, repair, etc. Call Verizon 24x7

Old business - none
New business -
Vallee - if the zoning bylaw is going to be brought here again, let's get the information we asked for. If it had come for a vote tonight, it would have failed. It requires a two-thirds vote to pass.

Councilor Comments
Zollo - the fields are a standard barer for the town
(will add comments for the school teachers putting in effort in trying times)

Vallee - The school department is going to have to look forward to less next year. The economy is going into the tank.

Nutting quietly got new 3 year deal last year

Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting confirmed this week that he has been working under a new, three-year contract.

The contract was negotiated with the council and signed shortly before the town's Nov. 6 election, Nutting said, with the terms retroactively taking effect a few months before in July.

Under Nutting's new deal, he gets a 2 1/2 percent raise this year, with subsequent raises up to the council as part of their annual review. Nutting received a $119,978 salary and a $5,983 car allowance in 2006, according to the town's most recent annual report.

Michael Morton reports the remainder of the details in his article in the Milford Daily News