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Annual Report of the Town of DAYTON, MAINE 2012 Voting Day June 12th 8am—8pm Town Meeting — June 14th, 2012 7:00 pm Dayton Municipal Building Town of Dayton 33 Clarks Mills Road Dayton, ME 04005 (207) 499-7526 www.dayton-me.gov Office Hours: Mon. 12-6, Wed. 8-3, Thur. 12-7 A Brief History of the Goodwin’s Mills Fire Department In 1934 at a special Town Meeting it was voted by the inhabitants of the Town of Dayton to purchase fire apparatus in conjunction with the Town of Lyman. The Selectmen were instructed to borrow $600.00 “for said equipment, on a long term note, and that method of payment be decided upon by the Town at the next Annual Town Meeting.” This would be the beginning of a long standing relationship between the two towns. In the month of March, 1949, a few dozen citizens of the Towns of Dayton and Lyman met at the Lyman Town Hall to start the process to incorporate the Fire Department as a non profit corporation. By June of that same year, they held their first meeting as a State of Maine certified not for Profit Corpo- ration to provide fire protection to the towns. At the Fire Department’s March meeting they voted to build a Fire Station for the stated sum of “$3,276.00”. At the March 13, 1950 Annual Town meeting Dayton residents voted to raise and appro- priate $2,700.00 for building a new fire station at Goodwin's Mills. The vote was then reconsidered, and voted to sell 4 of the Towns $500.00 bonds and raise $700.00 from taxes. It was also noted that there was an article in the Town of Lyman’s Annual Warrant asking permission from the citizens to “sell to the Goodwin’s Mills Fire Department, Inc. all of it’s fire fighting equipment”. The Fire Department’s June 5, 1951 meeting minutes show that they held this meeting in the new fire station. This was a 2 bay cinder block building with a flat roof with a hose tower at the rear of the station. This building served them well until the late 1970’s. In the spring of 1979, construction was started on an addition to the original station. This comprised of a ten foot addition to the front of the station with a third truck bay added. A dispatch room, a bath- room and a furnace room were added onto the rear. A second floor was built over the existing station to provide a meeting room, a second bathroom, a kitchen and an office. Like the original station, most of the work was done by volunteers. By the late 1990’s, it was discovered the weight of the second floor addition was proven too much for the walls of the original station and along with a number of other safety issues, it was decided to build a new station on recently acquired abutting property. This new station was built behind the existing station allowing uninterrupted protection to the Towns. Moving day was a cold winter Saturday in January of 2000. Then in the Year 2010, the department applied for a Federal Grant and was awarded over $850,000.00. This allowed us to add offices, showers, sleeping quarters, a modern kitchen and an exer- cise room. It also allowed for upgrades to the electrical, heating and ventilation systems, automatic ex- haust systems for the fleet, and installed a sprinkler system throughout the entire building. Events went full circle when on February 16, 2012; the Goodwin’s Mills Fire Department, Inc. trans- ferred all of its assets to the two Towns for the sum of $1.00. Fire Department history contributed by Normand Bilodeau & Town Records Signing of the closing documents Photo courtesy of Chief Roger Hooper Cover photo courtesy of Angela Cushman TABLE OF CONTENTS Board of Selectmen Letter ............................................................................................ 2 Town Officials & Committee Members ........................................................................ 3 Town Office Hours & Contact Information ................................................................... 4 Recycling/Transfer Station/Curbside............................................................................. 5 Local & Other Information ........................................................................................... 6 Tax Collector’s Report.................................................................................................. 7 Personal Property & Real Estate Outstanding ............................................................... 8 Town Clerk’s Report .................................................................................................... 9 Unlicensed Dog Report……………………………………………………………..10-13 Tax Assessor Report ................................................................................................... 14 Real Estate Tax List ............................................................................................... 15-34 Personal Property Tax List ..................................................................................... 35-36 Code Enforcement Report ........................................................................................... 37 Dayton Historical Society ........................................................................................... 38 Municipal Building & Field Update ............................................................................ 39 Planning Board ........................................................................................................... 40 Saco River Corridor Commission ............................................................................... 41 Fire Commission ................................................................................................... 42-43 Goodwin’s Mills Fire Rescue ...................................................................................... 44 Town Fire Warden ...................................................................................................... 45 Town of Dayton Financial Statement ..................................................................... 46-85 Notes page .................................................................................................................. 86 Town of Dayton ~2011-2012 Warrant ~ Colored pages ................................... W1-W14 Regional School Unit 23 ~ Dayton Graduates ............................................................. 87 Regional School Unit 23 ~ Dayton Consolidated School Faculty ................................ 88 In Memoriam & Births ........................................................................ inside back cover Dear Friends & Neighbors, Financial challenges are forever present and this coming year is not going to be any different. Once again the RSU is the largest financial challenge for the Town of Dayton. We were able to convince the School Board to recalculate the additional cost sharing formula which should save Dayton $500,000.00 over the next three years. That may sound great but we are still faced with a run-away $43,500,000.00 combined school budget for 2012/2013. We would also like to thank everyone involved in the completion of the addition to the Fire Sta- tion. In addition we would like to thank the Lyman Board of Selectmen, Fire Commission, Fire Chief Hooper, Lyman Treasurer Office, Town Attorneys, Auditors and everyone else involved in the Fire Department transition. As of February 16, 2012 the Fire Department is now a Mu- nicipal Fire Department between Dayton and Lyman. The next big step will be for everyone to work together and find common ground in the fire department budget which is now the second largest budget item next to the school budget for both towns. This past year the Town completed a rebuild of the Anderson Road, improvements at the Trans- fer Station, along with several other smaller road improvement projects. Again voluntarism is alive and well in Dayton. Thank-you to everyone that helped with the construction of the new Ball Field. Thanks to Michael Polakewich for the professionalism he added to the Board of Selectmen dur- ing his time on the Board, enjoy retirement. And once again the Board of Selectmen wants to thank our employees, committees, and volun- teers for all your help in making Dayton a great place to live. Ted Poirier, Chair Scott Littlefield Mike Polakewich Board of Selectmen L-R: Mike, Ted, Scott L-R: Mike, Ted & Scott TOWN OFFICIALS & COMMITTEE MEMBERS Board of Selectman Planning Board Ted Poirier, Chair………………..……....2014 Remi Caron, Chair……………………….2014 Scott Littlefield ……………………..…...2013 Rand Clark……………………………….2013 Michael Polakewich...……………..…….2012 Dan Plourde……………………………...2012 Richard Hall……………………………...2012 Officials PB Secretary……………………..Valerie Cole Selectmen’s Clerk ……….....Angela Cushman Zoning Board of Appeals Town Clerk.. ……………….. Janice