Posted on April 11, 2017
Edgartown procurement officer Juliet Mulinare told Edgartown selectmen Monday that approximately 5,000 cubic yards of dewatered Katama sand was sold at $10 a cubic yard from a dredge project — 3,500 to Cow Bay Corp., and 1,500 to Thomas Melone, a Fuller Street Beach abutter.
Bend in the Road Beach was nourished to the extent possible before any surplus sand was sold, Ms. Mulinare said.
“The intention is to keep generating revenue for the town,” she told the selectmen. The sale of the sand garnered $50,000 for the town.
Voters will consider the $600,000 purchase of a new dredge on the town warrant through a Proposition 2½ capital exclusion. The expenditure means a onetime tax increase of $38.50 on a property with a value of $500,000.
“The dredge committee understands the weight of this request,” Ms. Mulinare wrote to the Times in an email, “but the timing is such that now, maintaining our current dredge over time (after 20 years of operation) is more costly to the taxpayers than the purchase of a new one, which will include a trailer that will substantially reduce our annual mobilization and demobilization costs.”
In other town business, the selectmen postponed a shade tree hearing concerning three spruce trees at 77 Peases Point Way South, a property owned by Barbara Weinblatt. The selectmen did not approve the removal of the trees, and are waiting to hear the replacement proposal planned by the owner’s agent, Lil Province.
Source: MV Times
