{"id":2053,"date":"2014-11-27T04:20:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2024-06-20T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:25:22","slug":"2053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"BOS Meeting Notes November 10, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<p>Document for Civic News: &Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal.htm\">RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Town tax rate for 2014 has been set at $3.68, compared to $3.12 in 2014, an increase of nearly 18 percent.&Acirc;&nbsp; The overall tax rate (exclusive of districts) is up from $10.97 to $11.55, nearly all of which is due to the Town tax rate increase.&Acirc;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal.htm#taxes\">More Detail<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Town acquisition (for $1.25 million) of the back portion of the former Rand Lumber parcel was approved by the Conservation Commission and the Selectmen.&Acirc;&nbsp; Town residents challenged the absence of an independent appraisal, raised the possibility of hazardous waste being present, and emphasized the shortcomings in the developer-obtained appraisal (based on the value of a hypothetical 16 lot development). <a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal.htm#rand\">More Detail<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CIP Plan issues were discussed.&Acirc;&nbsp; The Rye Water District and Village Districts would remain in the plan, but be broken out.&Acirc;&nbsp; Selectman Musselman expressed concern that debt with the Town Hall project would reach the previous high, even before considering other large projects slotted for 2016 and 2017. &Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RCL-2014-Budget-Analysis-pre-Town-Meeting-29-Jan-142.pdf\">Click Here<\/a> for RCL Budget Presentation pointing this out.&Acirc;&nbsp; Selectman Musselman pushed the CIP Committee to winnow the projects down from a &acirc;&euro;&oelig;wish list&acirc;&euro; to a prioritized list based on affordability and whether the project fits into the Town&acirc;&euro;&trade;s financing structure.&Acirc;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RCL-2013-Survey-12-23-13-Presentation.pdf\">Click Here<\/a> for RCL survey pointing out resident interest in such rationalization. &Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal.htm#cip\">More Detail<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The parking study commissioned by the Town was presented by the consultant.&Acirc;&nbsp; Revenues of $400,000 annually are projected from the installation of parking meters.&Acirc;&nbsp; The consultant recommends striping of parking spaces whether or not meters are installed.&Acirc;&nbsp; Remote parking with shuttle buses should be considered as a last resort, according to the consultant. &Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal.htm#parking\">More Detail<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Document for Civic News: &Acirc;&nbsp;RyeBOSrclNotes111014revBfinal The Town tax rate for 2014 has been set at $3.68, compared to $3.12 in 2014, an increase of nearly 18 percent.&Acirc;&nbsp; The overall tax rate (exclusive of districts) is up from $10.97 to $11.55, nearly all of which is due to the Town tax rate increase.&Acirc;&nbsp; More Detail Town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-selectmen","category-town-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}