Buckley, Wagner donate time
GUILFORD — GUILFORD - Recently-resigned Town Administrator Katie Buckley and development consultant Isaac Wagner offered to donate their time to the municipality and the nonprofit Community Collaborative for Guilford to assist them with grant administration.
The town and the nonprofit are considering applying for a $30,000 Vermont Community Development Program planning grant to study the feasibility of establishing a community center and childcare facility in Algiers Village.
Because Buckley has extensive experience administering these types of grants, she offered to help with the project and to get the new town administrator up to speed when that person is hired.
Buckley and Wagner told the Selectboard at their Oct. 24 regular meeting they will calculate their hours and the value of their labor and make an in-kind donation to the town and Collaborative. The Selectboard unanimously voted, minus the absent Gabrielle Ciufredda and Troy Revis, to accept Buckley and Wagner's offer.
Reappraisal update
GUILFORD - Listers Lisa Barry and Jeremiah Sund informed the Selectboard they plan to complete the town-wide reappraisal project before the June 15 deadline, when the grand list is due.
Barry and Sund gave the Selectoard an update on their progress at the Oct. 24 regular Board meeting.
As of late October, the owners of 666 of the 937 residential properties in town received letters from the listers' office notifying them the inspector needs access to their homes. Barry said the owners of the remaining 271 residential properties would get their letters soon.
Barry told Board members the listers and their contractors were able to complete about 58 percent of the property inspections in five months, working three days per week, and “we will keep going at the rate we're currently going,” until there is too much snow for the inspectors to easily travel. Sund noted their average is inspecting about 100 properties per month.
They will resume their work in the spring.
During the winter, the listers and their contractors will perform research, calculation, and data entry duties.
Barry said members of her office would directly contact the owners of the town's approximately 230 “special” properties - farms and commercial sites - to arrange for inspection.