FIRST SELECTMAN’S REPORT – July 16, 2008

Mr. Formica stated that the Plan of Conservation and Development Committee is moving forward. He added that the Human Resource Manager, the Chair for Planning and himself have been reviewing Planning Director applications. He added that they had received ten applications and he hoped to have interviews set up in the next few weeks. He said that he had a phone conference with Moodys along with the Finance Director and our bond rating stayed the same, which is the highest rating for bond issues. He noted that we received an interest rate of 1.63%, which was excellent. He is working with the Council of Governments and the Se CT Water Authority, the Department of Public Health and the Water and Sewer Commission to work on long-term solutions for water for our town. He also talked to the owners of Darrow Pond since the water on this land has been tested and is available. There is also talk about a regional interconnection. He added that we are in the process of chlorination in order to make interconnections since chlorine will be needed to mix the water. Union negotiations continue with Council #4, but he was hoping to finalize them shortly.

He said that he attended the High School Graduation recently and was extremely proud to have his daughter participating. He also attended a ribbon cutting at 38 Hope Street, which will serve as a great project for downtown stimulus. He participated on a committee that selected a new auditor for the town and he attended the Rotary Installation of officers. There was also a Sergeant’s meeting at the Police Department and Resident Trooper Sgt. Blanchette is doing an excellent job. He added that we have two vacancies is the full time police ranks and that Lyndsay Cutillo has graduated the academy and will be on road training. He said that Joe Dunn had retired from the police department on June 24^th and Sgt. Renshaw was involved with a group working on Rules and Regulations for the Police Department. He attended an Explorer’s Meeting and added that Celebrate East Lyme was this weekend where he would be presenting a proclamation and dedicating the “Frank Egan Wall” at McCook’s beach.

He said that he met with Mayor Jaskiewicz of Montville, Andrea Stillman, Betsy Ritter and Ed Jutila at the Silver Falls dam trying to work out some improvements. We are in the process of getting picture id’s for staff and he has established a new cash procedure for the land use departments and it is now implemented.

He attended a radio infrastructure meeting with October – November being the finish point for the town wide radio system to be up and running. He attended the Planning Commission meeting where Drew Kenney was appointed as an Alternate. He attended an Award Ceremony at Three Belles Marina where the CT DEP awarded them as a “Clean Marina” and noted that only 11 marinas qualified out of 300+ in the state. He had a tour of the sub base with the Council of Governments and he met with the CT DEP boating division regarding policing issues on the Niantic River. He said that DEP polices from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday and they are working on an agreement with Waterford to share the policing on weekends and other necessary times.

Ms. Hardy inquired if the bike and foot patrols were being performed in town?

Mr. Formica commented he would check and find out.

Thank you – Paul Formica