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09/17/2019 02:10 PMNorth Haven voters will be asked to weigh in on issues ranging from bid levels to volunteer firefighter tax abatements at the Annual Town Meeting on Monday, Sept. 23.
Eligible voters are invited to the auditorium of the North Haven High School, 221 Elm Street, at 7 p.m. The first vote will be on a resolution to re-allocate $663,124 in budgeted funds between town departments, as recommended by the Board of Finance. Up next is a resolution to enter into an agreement between the town and the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority to handle the intermunicipal exchange of wastewater flows and related sewer infrastructure issues.
The third item on the meeting call addresses the minimum level in town or schools spending on the purchase of personal property or for services that triggers a bidding process. Expenditures in excess of $7,500 currently require the town solicit sealed, public bids; the resolution proposes that expenditures in excess of $25,000 go to bid. The waiver of the need for a bid on required the services of attorneys, certified public accountants, licensed engineers, architects, physicians, or dentists would remain unchanged.
The final item would increase the tax abatement for volunteer firefighters based upon amended levels of fire calls and drills attended and would include the extension of a tax abatement to retired volunteer firefighters who have completed 25 years of volunteer service in the Town of North Haven.
Under the proposal, the abatement for firefighters responding to a minimum call level would move from $500 to $750 through June 2021 and be set at $1,250 in July 2021 for firefighters responding to at least 25 percent of calls and attended at least half of the department’s drills. The maximum level of abatement would move from the current $1,000 to $1,500 through June 2021 and then $2,000 therafter for volunteers who respond to at least 45 percent of the department’s calls.
Registered voters and taxpayers with at least $1,000 in assessed taxable property are eligible to vote at Town Meeting.