BATH
RSU 1 Superintendent Patrick Manuel and architect Steve Laput briefed the Bath City Council on Wednesday on the site for a new Morse High School.
The briefing was the third of four such presentations that the superintendent is conducting in RSU 1 communities. The next planned presentation will be at the Arrowsic Town Hall on Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m.
Work continues on securing approximately 26 acres at the Wing Farm business park, which straddles two communities. Bath has already signed an option agreement with the district on the city-owned section of the property. West Bath recently voted in a special town meeting to sell the town owned portion of the site to the district.
The district is still working on an option agreement on a privately held piece of property and is eyeing another.
“In one case we’ve given an option to purchase and we’re just waiting to receive it, so we’ll have that hopefully in the next week or two. And then the other one we’re asking the Maine Department of Transportation within a week to give us some information and maybe some potential costs with it regarding the entrance and exit to the school,” said Manuel. “I would hope in the next two to three weeks at the most we would have answers on those last two pieces of property.”
Other business
Later in the meeting, the council approved of a letter expressing solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. The letter, addressed to Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Dave Archambault II, wishes “peace and a positive resolution to this situation” for the tribe, its members and its lands. The letter was inspired by a petition signed by 649 Bath residents that was brought to the council by Shelley Little. Only Councilors Gregory Page and Bernard Wyman voted against the measure and elected not to sign the letter.
“That does not diminish the power of the letter, just because his name and my name are not on it,” said Page. “That does not diminish the message.”
The council also approved updates to general assistance as required by the state.
Chairman Mari Eosco read a letter from the Woolwich selectboard expressing their condolences on the death of Councilor Leverett “Tink” Mitchell in December.
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Briefings
• The briefing was the third of four such presentations that the superintendent is conducting in RSU 1 communities to update them on the project. The next planned presentation will be at the Arrowsic Town Hall on Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m.
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