okay tried to photograph 30 pages out of 56 from the 2021 van buren maine town report but it gets confusing keeping the photos in order and i am going to see if i can figure out the new copier's scan feature and maybe re-do it so you can read all of the page and all of the pages
- the last 20 pages are where all the juicy budget stuff is but delinquency pages might embarrass some people having a tough time - especially in 2021 i apologize
read up from page 1 at the bottom and the videos of the town meeting are below the town report photos
june 1st, 2021 van buren, maine town town council meeting
only used one camera because i haven't figured out how to make the new one silent yet so i think i missed about 20 minutes from the end of the 2nd video:
https://tinyurl.com/5ztfsyf5 post link
town manager nancy troeger is seated at the table to the far left, maurice corbin is seated to her left, peter madore is seated to maurice's left, chairman joey ouellette is seated to peter's left and paul nadeau is seated to the right at the desk
assistant town manager and town constable sgt like dyer is seated in the chair to nancy's right
video 1 ambulance contract for van buren cove on long lake
video 1 at minute 1 council moves to executive session for assessors' meeting a to appoint ian as the new assessors' assistant
video 3 approve minutes
video 3 at minute 1.00 aroostook emergency management agency wants a new location to distribute food and supplies which is to be the industrial park
video 3 at minute 3.19 a motion to appoint dr charles plourde and david madore to the van buren housing authority board for terms of 5 years each is passed
video 3 minute 4.00 motion to approve the van buren ambulance contract passes
video 3 at minute 7.00 vote on the right of the town to sell aquired property passes
video 3 at minute 10:00 town manager report
video 3 at minute 11 town offices will be closed tuesday june 8th for the town election as the town office workers run the election
so i became interested in grants because of our friend alphena who said her niece made a nice living writing a grant for herself every year then spending the rest of the year working at whatever occupation the grant entailed, then alphena's son was looking for his relative in germany who had the same last name as a girl from my highschool so i friended her and she told me she was a professional grant writer - and that it is a science or an art or both to be able to write grants successfully
van buren, maine town grant opportunities you as an individual, organization, farmer, micro/small business person or just a town resident might be eligible 4:
the town is considering getting a 15 passenger van to drive elderly, people without cars and disabled people to stores, the library and town activities etc...
our neighbor is a disabled professional cdl licensed trucker who is still a very good driver and mentioned she would like to start an uber or lyft in town perhaps we can massage two birds with one shiatsu machine with this a c a p program that reportedly gives free cars to disabled people:
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- clark and lois (the newspaper they worked for was owned by wayne enterprises, so they both worked for batman)
the reeve foundation was named for christopher and dana reeve who met, married and lived during the summers in my hometown, curiously, about half a mile from a place called kidder hollow, which is just above sinclair lewis's former thorvale on the taconic range
margo kidder wiki - oh no margo kidder died in 2018 after protesting at standing rock with sophie wilanski who graduated from the town college
wow - margot kidder was also (temporarily) paralyzed - from a car accident
batman became disabled fighting bane, which is when the archangel azrael became the dark knight
these grants and resources help municipalities and organizations fund wheelchair accessible vans:
reeve's close friend robin williams (who once as mork paralyzed 'the fonz') had a summer house 25 miles south in pittsfield and there are many tales from former townie restaurant workers of their dinners together with family and friends at the local restaurants accented with the antics of mr williams often reportedly talking to the lobsters in the lobster tanks
the demayos gave me a bike after mine was stolen in rochester which helped me get a job at x-tyal in the next town east
no,
(i had fallen off a roof dave and i were working on and got amnesia shortly after returning from rochester)
it were the dolans who gave me the bike that helped me get a job at x-tyal in 1984 which helped me get the bike that was stolen in rochester and the demayos (who were friends of the dolans) who gave me a bike after i got back from rochester in 1986 that helped me get a job with dave & bob and finally the museum which helped me get a new $500 miyata mountain bike from the mountain goat that must have been taken when they tore down dad houseand mom's
x-tyal made biological and gas masks for the u s military
now they are building a bike path from north adams to williamstown using covid recovery funds along the mohawk trail i used to have to ride along to get to work
'The Surface Transportation Program (STP) (23 U.S.C. 133) is one of the main sources of flexible funding available for transit or highway purposes. STP provides the greatest flexibility in the use of funds. These funds may be used (as capital funding) for public transportation capital improvements, car and vanpool projects, fringe and corridor parking facilities, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and intercity or intracity bus terminals and bus facilities. '
'The Community Building Grant Program invests in local projects and organizations that work to build strong communities. It is a grassroots grant program focused on efforts to use, improve and/or increase access to community assets. These community assets include natural and built resources, as well as community members, their views and voices, local leaders, and the relationships or connections among people and organizations across the community.'
'USDA Rural Business Development Grant program (Deadline: June 30, 2021) The USDA has released a series of funding for eligible applicant organizations seeking to provide rural communities with training and technical assistance to improve transportation services and facilities. USDA does not provide funding directly to individuals under this program. Applications will be scored, reviewed, and selected on a competitive basis. Applications must be submitted to the applicant’s nearest USDA office by June 30, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. local time.'
emergency broadband benefit possibly $50 / month for your internet service and a possible $100 for a new / used computer (it sends you to a corporation to fill out the application and that application repeatedly tries to get you to initial that you live on tribal lands don't initial that box - unless you do live on tribal lands - and complain to your congress person until they fix it)
on june 10th, 2021 - the morning after the town meeting and 2 days after the town and state election - there is going to be a solar eclipse at 5:39 am in van buren !
